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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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Description
x, 125 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics
Uniform Title
Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.
Subject
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