The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
By Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Ottenheimer's authoritative but approachable advent to the field's method, talents, recommendations, instruments, and purposes emphasizes the types of questions that anthropologists ask approximately language and the categories of questions that intrigue scholars. The textual content brings jointly the foremost parts of linguistic anthropology, addressing problems with energy, race, gender, and sophistication all through. extra stressing the typical relevance of the textual content fabric, Ottenheimer comprises "In the Field" vignettes that draw you in to the bankruptcy fabric through tales culled from her personal and others' reviews, in addition to "Doing Linguistic Anthropology" and "Cross-Language Miscommunication" gains that describe real-life purposes of textual content innovations.
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Ditorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require About the Author H arriet Joseph Ottenheimer, professor emerita of anthropology at Kansas State University, earned a BA in literature at Bennington College and a PhD in anthropology at Tulane University. Her research interests include music, language, and other creative and performative expressions, particularly in African American and African cultures.
All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). ditorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. 1 Ethics in Linguistic Anthropology Pamela J. Innes, University of Wyoming Because our research involves the collection and analysis of cul- tural property (language), linguistic anthropologists must adhere to a code of ethics.
Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). ditorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require linguistic anthropology • 9 his Handbook of American Indian Languages in 1911, he wrote in the introduction about how difficult it was to find significant one-to-one correlations between race and culture, between language and culture, and between language and race.