Publications

Publication details [#47536]

Danziger, Eve. 2001. Relatively Speaking. Language, Thought, and Kinship among the Mopan Maya. Oxford University Press. 144 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnography | kinship terminology | L1-acquisition | language and culture | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

Mayan, Mopan

Annotation

This book explores the semantic complexity of specific kinship terms employed among Mopan women and children, demonstrating that a culture-specific terminology analysis is superior to other, non-ethnographically-founded approaches.