ANTH U102 Study Guide - Benjamin Lee Whorf, Dian Fossey, William Rathje

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I put saphir-whorf under this topic because two men edward sapir and his pupil benjamin lee whorf developed the hypothesis that language influences thought sparking the theory of linguistic relativity. Because semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. Which goes with linguistics and how language has relationship with culture and thought. Why did you place the person above in the category that you did? he studied material remains from land fields, logged, and documented the remains. She was a primatologist who studied mountain gorillas" behavior and evolution. And since she was a primatologist, she fell under this category. Because they study garbage waste in land fields. Rathje was named this because of sort thought landfills and study garbage waste from what people through away. Because primatology is the study non- human primates and their behaviors and it"s one of the subfields for biological anthropology.