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Language and thought : anthropological issues / edited by William C. McCormack and Stephen A. Wurm.

DGBA Social Sciences - <1990 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
McCormack, William C. (William Charles), 1929- editor.
Wurm, Stephen A., editor.
Series:
World anthropology.
World anthropology
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Anthropological linguistics--Congresses.
Anthropological linguistics.
Thought and thinking--Congresses.
Thought and thinking.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (X, 525 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2020
Place of Publication:
The Hague : Mouton Publishers, [1977]
Language Note:
In English.
Contents:
Frontmatter
General Editor's Preface
Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction
Linguistic Relativity: Myths and Methods
Wordless Thoughts
Some Notes on Central Eskimo Color Terminology
The Terminology of Time in Romanian
"Meaning" for the Linguist and "Meaning" for the Anthropologist
Linguistic Models in Anthropology
On Speech and Thought
The Synthetic Informant Model: On the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields
Tahitian Ethnozoological Classification and Fuzzy Logic
On an African Classificatory System
Ethnoscience as a Research Paradigm
Australian Kin Classification
Kinship Terminologies: The Okinawan Case
Kachin Social Categories and Methodological Sins
"Must" and "Ought": Problems of Translation in Sanskritic Hindu Law
Ethnolinguistic Introduction to Japanese Literature
Ethnohermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Intended Meaning Among the Kpelle of Liberia
Bodily Symbolism in Hindu Ashrams and the Replication of Social Experience
Prestations and Prayers: Two Homologous Systems in Northern India
Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device
Sex, Nature, and Culture in Ponapean Myth
Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars
Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture
On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences
The Semiotic Character of the Aesthetic Function as Defined by the Prague Linguistic Circle
Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values
The Nature of Value and the Experience Entities
Summary of Discussion
Biographical Notes
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9783112328286
3112328280
OCLC:
1202623724

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