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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:08:40
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Language of Hunter-Gatherers: Güldemann, McConvell, Rhodes (eds.)

 


Title: The Language of Hunter-Gatherers 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-hunter-gatherers?format=HB 


Editor: Tom Güldemann
Editor: Patrick McConvell
Editor: Richard A. Rhodes

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108631150 Pages: 742 Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107003682 Pages: 742 Price: U.S. $ 160.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107003682 Pages: 742 Price: U.K. £ 115.00


Abstract:

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.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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