Language and Thought

Anthropological Issues

AvWilliam C. McCormack,Stephen A. Wurm

Inbunden, Engelska, 1977

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Utgivningsdatum:1977-12-31
Mått:160 x 236 x 35 mm
Vikt:944 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:World Anthropology
Antal sidor:535
Upplaga:77001
Förlag:De Gruyter
ISBN:9783112328279

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Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTORY -- Introduction -- SECTION TWO: LINGUISTIC MODELS -- Linguistic Relativity: Myths and Methods -- Wordless Thoughts -- Some Notes on Central Eskimo Color Terminology -- The Terminology of Time in Romanian -- "Meaning" for the Linguist and "Meaning" for the Anthropologist -- Linguistic Models in Anthropology -- On Speech and Thought -- SECTION THREE: ETHNOSCIENCE -- The Synthetic Informant Model: On the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields -- Tahitian Ethnozoological Classification and Fuzzy Logic -- On an African Classificatory System -- Ethnoscience as a Research Paradigm -- Australian Kin Classification -- Kinship Terminologies: The Okinawan Case -- SECTION FOUR: ETHNOHERMENEUTICS -- Kachin Social Categories and Methodological Sins -- "Must" and "Ought": Problems of Translation in Sanskritic Hindu Law -- Ethnolinguistic Introduction to Japanese Literature -- Ethnohermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Intended Meaning Among the Kpelle of Liberia -- Bodily Symbolism in Hindu Ashrams and the Replication of Social Experience -- Prestations and Prayers: Two Homologous Systems in Northern India -- SECTION FIVE: OPPOSITIONS -- Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device -- Sex, Nature, and Culture in Ponapean Myth -- Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars -- Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture -- On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences -- SECTION SIX: FUNCTIONS, STRUCTURES, AND VALUES -- The Semiotic Character of the Aesthetic Function as Defined by the Prague Linguistic Circle -- Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values -- The Nature of Value and the Experience Entities -- SECTION SEVEN: DISCUSSION -- Summary of Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects