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

Zusatztext ...the greatest achievement of this work is its unique combination of ethnographic and quantitative methodologies. It is this combination that allows the study to rise above the many problems facing anyone who attempts to examine the relativity hypothesis.....The ethnographic research is itself a major contribution to Mayan ethnography. Danziger provides an excellent description of the Mopan system of kinship (and its role in establishing and maintaining social relationships) and her analysis of the importance of the 'tzik' concept of respect will be especially useful to anthropologists and Mayanists. Klappentext Eve Danziger's study re-addresses the issue of language and thought by viewing linguistic utterances as fully integrated into both the particular context of their use and the larger cultural context that makes it possible to use them at all. Using fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, she 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 of analysis. Zusammenfassung 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, showing that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods.

Product details

• Authors: Eve Danziger, Eve (Professor of Anthropology Danziger, Danziger Eve
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2001
• EAN: 9780195099102
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509910-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Belize, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Mayan, Mayan languages