Relatively Speaking: Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya

ISBN-10: 0195099109
ISBN-13: 9780195099102
Series: Relatively Speaking
Category: Language and culture
Pages: 125
Language: English
Published: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Author: Eve Danziger

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.

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