He was educated at Kenyatta College, receiving a BEd ( Swahili Language ), and later studied at Yale University, gaining an MA in Anthropological Linguistics and a PhD in Swahili Language Linguistics.
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A return to the whaling discipline would likely involve the entire community, said Dr . Ann Renker, an expert in anthropological linguistics who wrote the Makah Chapter in the Smithsonian Institution's " Handbook of North American Indians ."
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Anthropological linguistics has had a major impact in the studies of such areas as visual perception ( especially colour ) and bioregional democracy, both of which are concerned with distinctions that are made in languages about perceptions of the surroundings.
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He is the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and in spite of his advanced age, he continues to write, edit, speak and travel at select meetings and conferences, and remains an Associate Editor of the journal " Anthropological Linguistics ".
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The name certainly stresses that the primary identity is with anthropology, whereas " anthropological linguistics " conveys a sense that the primary identity of " its " practitioners was with linguistics, which is a separate academic discipline on most university campuses today ( not in the days of Boas and Sapir ).