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Relatively speaking : language, thought, and kinship among the Mopan Maya / Eve Danziger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danziger, Eve, author.
- Series:
- Oxford series in anthropological linguistics.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford series in anthropological linguistics
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mopan dialect.
- Mopan Indians--Belize--Kinship.
- Mopan Indians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 125 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Guide to Abbreviations and Orthography; Chapter 1. Kinship, Semantics, and Linguistic Relativity; Chapter 2. The Mopan Setting; Chapter 3. The Meanings of Kinship Terms; Chapter 4. Tzik and Kinship; Chapter 5. Creating Tzik Relationships; Chapter 6. Three Semantic Analyses and Their Consequences; Chapter 7. Formal Findings; Chapter 8. Language, Thought, and Reality; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772231-8
- 1-280-76077-X
- 0-19-802595-5
- 0-19-535677-2
- OCLC:
- 609831247
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