Language of Hunter-Gatherers (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Guldemann, Tom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as 'others' standing outside the main trajectory of human social evolution. But even after eleven millennia of agriculture and two centuries of widespread industrialization, hunter-gatherer societies continue to exist. This volume, using the lens of language, offers us a window into the inner workings of twenty-first-century hunter-gatherer societies - how they survive and how they interface with societies that produce more. It challenges long-held assumptions about the limits on social dynamism in hunter-gatherer societies to show that their languages are no different either typologically or sociolinguistically from other languages. With its worldwide coverage, this volume serves as a report on the state of hunter-gatherer societies at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and readers in all geographical areas will find arguments of relevance here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108577199
• Artikelnr.: 62735446

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introductory Chapters: 1. Hunter-gatherer anthropology and language
Tom Güldemann, Patrick McConvell and Richard Rhodes; 2. Genetic landscape
of present day hunter-gatherer groups Ellen Gunnasdóttir and Mark
Stoneking; 3. Linguistc typology and hunter-gatherer languages Balthasar
Bickel and Johanna Nichols; 4. Ethnobiology and the
hunter-gatherer/food-producer divide Cecil Brown; Part II. Africa: 5.
Hunters and gatherers in East Africa and the case of Ontoga (Southwest
Ethiopia) Mauro Tosco and Graziano Savà; 6. The Khoe-Kwadi family in
Southern Africa Tom Güldemann; Part III. Tropical Asia: 7. Hunter-gatherers
in South and Southeast Asia: the Mla-Bri Jørgen Rischel; 8. Languages in
the Malay Peninsula Niclas Burenhult; 9. Language in the Andaman Islands
Juliette Blevins; 10. Historical linguistics and Philippine
hunter-gatherers Lawrence A. Reid; 11. Hunter-gatherers of Borneo and their
languages Antonia Soriente; Part IV. New Guinea and Australia: 12. The
linguistic situation in near Oceana before agriculture Malcolm Ross; 13.
Language, locality and lifestyle in New Guinea Mark Donahue; 14. Small
language survival and large language expansion in aboriginal Australia
Peter Sutton; 15. Language and population shift in pre-colonial Australia:
non-Pama-Nyungan languages Mark Harvey; 16. The spread of Pama-Nyungan in
Australia Patrick McConvell; Part V. Northeastern Eurasia: 17. Typological
accommodation in central Siberia Edward J. Vadja; 18. Hunter-gatherers in
Eastern Siberia Gregory D. S. Anderson and K. David Harrison; Part VI.
North America: 19. Primitivism in hunter and gatherer languages: the case
of Eskimo words for snow Willem J. de Reuse; 20. Language shift in the
Subarctic and central Plains Richard A. Rhodes; 21. Uto-Aztecan
hunter-gatherers Jane H. Hill; Part VII. South America: 22. Language and
subsistence patterns in the Amazonian Vaupés Patience Epps; 23. The
Southern Plains and the Continental Tip Alejandra Vidal and José
Braunstein.