Relatively speaking : language, thought, and kinship among the Mopan Maya /

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Author / Creator:	Danziger, Eve.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 125 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 26 Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 26.
Subject:	Mopan dialect -- Belize -- Toledo District -- Semantics. Mopan dialect -- Belize -- Toledo District -- Grammar -- Terminology. Mopan dialect -- Belize -- Toledo District -- Etymology -- Names. Mopan Indians -- Kinship. Mopan Indians -- Social life and customs. Language and culture -- Belize -- Toledo District. Language and culture. Manners and customs. Mopan Indians -- Social life and customs. Toledo District (Belize) -- Social life and customs. Belize -- Toledo District. Electronic books. Terminology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11226633

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ISBN:	9780195356779 0195356772 128076077X 9781280760778 9780195099102 0195099109
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-122) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Danziger, Eve. Relatively speaking. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 9780195099102

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