Frenz Boas was the first anthropologist to emphasize the relationship between language and culture. He did this in the most simple and obvious way, 1 analyzing the lexicon of two languages, revealing the 2 made by people of different cultures. For example, to most Americans who are not ski buffs, snow is just 3 of the weather and our vocabulary is 4 to two terms, snow and slush. In Eskimo, there are many terms. Each describes snow 5 a different state or condition, clearly revealing a 6 on an accurate 7 to describe not just weather but a 8 environmental feature. 9 Boas' time anthropologists have learned more and more about this most important 10 -- language to culture -- and they have come to use language data with great 11 . Lexical analyses are usually 12 studies of the so-called exotic cultures of the world. Benjamin Lee Whorf, in Language, Thought, and Reality, went 13 than Boas. He suggersted that every language 14 a prominent part in actually 15 the perceptual world of the people who use it.