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Comparative Linguistics Has Unsavoury Roots, Here s Why
by Avatans Kumar - Jan 11, 2021 09:27 AM
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Snapshot
This line of thinking allowed Europeans to spread colonialism throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
In their exhaustive
review of researcher Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahnâs book
Archives of Origins, philosopher-Indologist Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee examine the emergence of racism in the humanities. They argue that Western linguistics (referred simply as linguistics from here on) and anthropology were not separate fields of inquiry, at least initially.
The bond that brought linguistics and anthropology together was their understanding of âhistoryâ and ârace.â