Relatively speaking: language, thought, and kinship among the mopan maya
Auteur :
Danziger, Eve
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195099102
Date de publication :
10 mai 2001
Dimensions :
23,8 x 16,0 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
408 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.