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Relatively speaking : language, thought, and kinship among the Mopan Maya
- Title
- Relatively speaking : language, thought, and kinship among the Mopan Maya / Eve Danziger.
- Author
- Danziger, Eve.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- x, 125 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics
- Uniform Title
- Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.
- Subject
- Mopan dialect > Belize > Toledo District > Semantics
- Mopan dialect > Belize > Toledo District > Grammar > Terminology
- Mopan dialect > Belize > Toledo District > Etymology > Names
- Mopan Indians > Kinship
- Mopan Indians > Social life and customs
- Language and culture > Belize > Toledo District
- 18.91 American Indian languages
- Language and culture
- Manners and customs
- Mopan Indians > Social life and customs
- Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese
- Sprachliche Universalien
- Verwandtschaftsbezeichnung
- Soziolinguistik
- Ethnolinguistik
- Mopán Maya (taal)
- Maya's
- Verwantschap
- Toledo District (Belize) > Social life and customs
- Belize > Toledo District
- Mopan-Sprache
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Terminology
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-122) and index.
- Contents
- Kinship, Semantics, and Linguistic Relativity -- Mopan Kinship -- Kinship Theory: Universal and Relative -- Linguistic Relativity -- Psychological Reality -- Abstract of Method -- The Mopan Setting -- Ethnographic Setting -- The Ethnographer's Expectations and Experiences -- The Meanings of Kinship Terms -- The Piagetian Definition Task -- The Question of Kinship -- The Tzik Relationship Terms of Mopan -- Tzik and Kinship -- The Native Speaker's View -- Mopan Life Ich Naj ('in the House') -- Tzik Relationships and Their Socialization -- Creating Tzik Relationships -- Ritually Established Relationships -- Acquiring Relationships through Marriage -- Performative Aspects of Tzik Appellation -- What Does Generation Mean? -- Three Semantic Analyses and Their Consequences -- Semantic Analyses -- Acquisition Outcomes and Linguistic Relativity -- Formal Findings -- Putting the Question -- Data Tabulation -- Data Analysis -- Language, Thought, and Reality.
- ISBN
- 0195099109
- 9780195099102
- LCCN
- 99086793
- OCLC
- ocm43115075
- 43115075
- SCSB-1217507
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library