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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.

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Genre/Form

Electronic books.
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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