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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:40:27
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Language of Hunter-Gatherers: Güldemann, McConvell, Rhodes (eds.)

 


Title: The Language of Hunter-Gatherers 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

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


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

Paperback: ISBN:  9781009299558 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 54.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009299558 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 42.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009299558 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 50.17


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.
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 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): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=167413




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