Relatively Speaking: Language, Thought, and Kinship Among the Mopan Maya(Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

Based upon 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, Eve Danziger examines the semantic complexity of particular kinship terms used among Mopan women and children and shows that a culture-specific analysis of their terms is superior to other non-ethnographically-based methods. In doing so she contributes not only to theoretical semantics and the ethnography of that area,