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Direct linkWidlok, Thomas – Language Sciences, 2008
Even before it became a common place to assume that "the Eskimo have a hundred words for snow" the languages of hunting and gathering people have played an important role in debates about linguistic relativity concerning geographical ontologies. Evidence from languages of hunter-gatherers has been used in radical relativist challenges to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Language Classification, Vocabulary
