| Relatively Speaking: Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya Contributor(s): Danziger, Eve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195099109 ISBN-13: 9780195099102 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $222.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2001 Annotation: Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods. In doing so she contributes not only to theoretical semantics and the ethnography of that area, but to the cross-cultural study of child development and language acquisition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Foreign Language Study | Native American Languages - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 497.415 |
| LCCN: 99086793 |
| Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.28" W x 9.36" (0.90 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods. In doing so she contributes not only to theoretical semantics and the ethnography of that area, but to the cross-cultural study of child development and language acquisition. |
