Anthropology Terms - Connor Kissack

Connor Kissack
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
7 September 2019

Anthropology Terms

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is a hypothesis that was created by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf in the early 20th century. It basically shows how the structure of one’s native language determines their perception of experience. An instant of this is how in our society jobs are characterized by a gender; male and female. It’s like how it’s unusual to see a woman being part of a team of firefighters since they’re mainly categorized as ‘firemen’. Another example is how when working as male nurse you’re given a separate title - of course male nurse - rather than having the same title as a female nurse which is just nurse. Likewise with the firefighters example, it’s not considered normal to be a certain gender on a particular job in the English language and our society. 

Adaptive Mechanism: A way of being able to survive in a particular environment by any means that are necessary in order to do so. When it comes to homo sapiens, or humans, culture is the most important adaptive mechanism for survival. An example of this in action would be natural selection through the Peppered Moths in Britain. They used to be bright white but when the tree trunks darkened due to pollution, they couldn’t survive. In order to do so, natural selection picked out the darkened moths so they could better camouflage with their environment. As of today, they are still darkened because of the pollution in Britain. 
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/language-and-thought
https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/adaptive-technology-its-applications/600


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