Author: Harvey PitkinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520096134
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Wintu Dictionary
Author: Harvey PitkinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520096134
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Wintu Texts
Author: Alice ShepherdPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520097483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Wintu Grammar
Author: Harvey PitkinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520096127
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary
Author: Catherine A. CallaghanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520097124
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Wintu & Their Neighbors
Author: Christopher K. Chase-DunnPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816518005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
On the cutting edge of world-systems theory comes The Wintu and Their Neighbors, the first case study to compare and contrast systematically an indigenous Native American society with the modern world at large. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, and history, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M. Mann have scoured the archaeological record of the Wintu, an aboriginal people without agriculture, metallurgy, or class structure who lived in the wooded valleys and hills of northern California. By studying the household composition, kinship, and trade relations of the Wintu, they call into question some of the basic assumptions of prior sociological theory and analysis. Chase-Dunn and Mann argue that Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems perspective, originally applied only to the study of modern capitalistic societies, can also be applied to the study of the social, economic, and political relationships in small stateless societies. They contend that, despite the fact that the Wintu appear on the surface to have been a household-based society, this indigenous group was in fact involved in a myriad of networks of interaction, which resulted in intermarriage and which extended for many miles around the region. These networks, which were not based on the economic dominance of one society over anotherÑa concept fundamental to Wallerstein's world-systems theoryÑled to the eventual expansion of the Wintu as a cultural group. Thus, despite the fact that the Wintu did not behave like a modern societyÑlacking wealth accumulation, class distinctions, and cultural dominanceÑChase-Dunn and Mann insist that the Wintu were involved in a world-system and argue, therefore, that the concept of the "minisystem" should be discarded. They urge other scholars to employ this comparative world-systems perspective in their research on stateless societies.
Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Dictionary
Author: Jon Philip DayleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520097544
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Cocopa Dictionary
Author: James Mack CrawfordPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520097490
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Yana Dictionary
Author: Edward SapirPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520092198
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
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The Dictionary of Lahu
Author: James A. MatisoffPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520327136
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
The Languages of Native North America
Author: Marianne MithunPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521298759
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.