ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Baffin Island, Linguistic Relativity
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Overview: boas, sapir/whorf/linguistic relativity, body parts, geography, colour, kinship terminology. Culture and language: relationship between language and human thought/behaviour. Inuit words for seal : lot of words for seal. Influences the way people think and thus behave. In the process of socialization, big part is learning how to classify your experience: object world, social world, supernatural world, etc. i. Colour spectrum differently: depending on our cultural conditioning our eyes will perceive the spectrum, not possible to draw line of when colours change because perception is variable, though we are demarcating them, categorizing, foregrounding and backgrounding elements. English and tiv colour classification: agricultural people of nigeria and cameroon, comparing colour terms, tiv, black/dark, white/light, brown, red and yellow encompassed into third term. English green blue gray brown red yellow pupu (dark) nyian. Verne ray: experiment that divided the colour spectrum of north american english and.
