Semantic anthropology / edited by David Parkin
1982, 1st edition. London ; New York : Academic Press. Very good copy in the colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #325472
ISBN: 0125451806
Physical description: li, 310 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: Based on a ASA conference held at Durham, March 30-April 2, 1982. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: Alternative meanings of number and counting / Thomas Crump (14 p.). -- Meaning and context: the interpretation of greetings in Kasigau / Kay Milton (18 p.). -- Creation of identity in spirit mediumship and possession / Judith Irvine (20 p.). -- On a mental sausage machine and other nominal problems / Roy Willis (14 p.). -- Personal names and social classification / R.B Barnes (16 p.). -- Getting to know you / Martha B Kendall (14 p.). -- Sick who do not speak / Basil Sansom (14 p.). -- Semasiology: a semantic anthropologist's view of human movements and actions / Drid Williams (22 p.). -- Establishing an ethnicity: the emergence of the "Icelanders" in the early Middle Ages / Kirsten Hastrup (16 p.). -- Social anthropology, language and reality / Edwin Ardener (14 p.). -- Anthropological field research, meaning creation and knowledge construction / Malcolm Crick (24 p.). -- Meaning or moaning?: an ethnographic note on a little understood tribe / Mark Hobart (26 p.). -- Theoretical landscapes, on a cross-cultural conception of knowledge / Anne Salmond (24 p.). -- Models, meaning and reflexivity / Stephen Gudeman (18 p.). -- Language vs. the world: notes on meaning for anthropologists / Elizabeth Tonkin (16 p.). -- "Semantics" and the "Celt" / Malcolm Chapman (22 p.). Subjects: Assoc. of Soc. Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conf. Durham. 1982. Anthropological linguistics; Congresses.
Linguistics. Anthropological linguistics; Congresses. Semantics Social aspects; Congresses. Genre: Bibliography. Conference papers and proceedings.
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