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Relatively Speaking: Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya - Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
Danziger, Eve (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia, USA)
Relatively Speaking: Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya - Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
Danziger, Eve (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia, USA)
Using 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, the author examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children, showing that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods.
136 pages, numerous figures and tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 10, 2001 |
ISBN13 | 9780195099102 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 144 |
Dimensions | 160 × 238 × 15 mm · 408 g |