Sublime

If people move across an ethno-linguistic frontier freely, then the frontier is often described in anthropology as, in some sense, a fiction. Is this just because it was not a boundary like that of a modern nation? Eric Wolf used this very argument to assert that the North American Iroquois did not exist as a distinct tribe during the Colonial

The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language.

Apparently, I was words it could understand, unlike the anthropologist.

plan to enrich a few well-connected US publishers and pedagogues, this represented a direct assault on four hundred years of language and culture under the guise of “civilizing a savage people.”4

psycholinguist Paul Bloom

intention-reading can take place in the absence of language—it is a general human cognitive ability, and one that supports all sorts of behavior, not just linguistic. There is no isolated “language module” that allows linguistic competence to “grow” in the brain as a result of a genetic blueprint. Language is the fruit of both the biological

peu de chances que le membre d’une tribu de Nouvelle-Guinée adhère au sionisme ou au nationalisme serbe, parce que ces récits ne font aucun cas de la Nouvelle-Guinée et de sa population. Comme les stars de cinéma, les hommes n’aiment que les scénarios qui leur réservent un rôle important.