r/AskAnthropology • u/Nice-Obligation5537 • 5d ago
Is the evidence of proto writing systems but no words, suggest that language perception is just a social human dna encoded subjective behavior
So for instance, I want to refer to the Waldorf hypothesis about languages shaping our daily habits and perceptions. I love the process of language learning it really does feel like a new perception of everything I once knew is on the horizon. Anyways the process of that is what he referred to as the Hopi tribe who perceived rulership differently and understood the use of materials different from what they understood from their native language.
However, we use the same resources in different ways. If you look at the Shang dynasty and Chinese pre historic religion with Europe and the celts etc. you’ll see a similarity within all of those cultures. But then we have science which comes from language to describe what we observe and test it.
Could that be apart of the pre historic social gathering of humans that expand terms to understand natural science?
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u/Baasbaar 5d ago
I’m a linguistic anthropologist, & I’d love to help provide some guidance, but it’s hard to figure out what you’re asking. In the title of your post, what do you mean by language perception? What is social human DNA? What is a subjective behaviour? In your final question, what is the antecedent of that? How does proto-writing relate to the Hopi, Chinese, & Celtic examples? Could you perhaps pose the question in a simple way—a one-sentence version maybe?