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“White” linguistics
Mahima Janani • 1 card
Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?
The Interpreter
O português correu, muitas vezes e durante muito tempo, o risco de desaparecer, suplantado por línguas nossas, que ao menos até o século xviii eram, em muitas situações, as mais usadas nas cidades do Norte e na vasta região dominada por São Paulo, tanto entre brancos quanto entre não brancos.
Caetano W. Galindo • Latim Em Pó
But, as Romila Thapar has recently argued, this is equally true for the most notorious exemplar of a non-historical culture, India.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Textual Life | Columbia University Press
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Gordon surmised that the Pirahã provided support for a controversial hypothesis advanced early in the last century by Benjamin Lee Whorf, a student of Sapir’s. Whorf argued that the words in our vocabulary determine how we think. Since the Pirahã do not have words for numbers above two, Gordon wrote, they have a limited ability to work with... See more
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Matt Mower • 1 card