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"the state of a culture starving its people of cognitive and linguistic representations by having no words for particular concepts and thereby muting them" implies intention with action verbs like "starving" and "muting". Is there any evidence that this condition can not arise from neglect and chance instead of only intention?
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13:58, 30 October 2012 (UTC)reply
This is a really trash argument from anthropology that anthropologists have critiqued this and their complicity in producing this kind of knowledge to all end ("scientific studies" of native people, claims about their capacity to "learn concepts" from linguistic analysis and linking that to cognitive ability--often a part of some kind of colonial ideology of assimilation, separation, genocide, etc. ). This is extremely outdated and no longer accepted by anthropological consensus. Go on, ask any cultural or linguistic anthropologist under the age of 80.
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05:10, 28 October 2022 (UTC)reply