ISBN:
9781108631150
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (748 pages)
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Abstract:
Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Hunter-Gatherer Anthropology and Language -- 2 Genetic Landscape of Present-Day Hunter-Gatherer Groups -- 3 Linguistic Typology and Hunter-Gatherer Languages -- 4 Ethnobiology and the Hunter-Gatherer/Food Producer Divide -- Part II Africa -- 5 Hunters and Gatherers in East Africa and the Case of Ongota (Southwest Ethiopia) -- 6 Changing Profile When Encroaching on Forager Territory: Toward the History of the Khoe-Kwadi Family in Southern Africa -- Part III Tropical Asia -- 7 Hunter-Gatherers in South and Southeast Asia: The Mlabri -- 8 Foraging and the History of Languages in the Malay Peninsula -- 9 Linguistic Clues to Andamanese Prehistory: Understanding the North-South Divide -- 10 Historical Linguistics and Philippine Hunter-Gatherers -- 11 Hunter-Gatherers of Borneo and Their Languages -- Part IV New Guinea and Australia -- 12 The Linguistic Situation in Near Oceania before Agriculture -- 13 Language, Locality and Lifestyle in New Guinea -- 14 Small Language Survival and Large Language Expansion on a Hunter-Gatherer Continent -- Appendix Estate/Language Data for about 150 Cases of Australian Linguistic Varieties -- 15 Language and Population Shift in Pre-Colonial Australia: Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages -- 16 The Spread of Pama-Nyungan in Australia -- Part V Northeastern Eurasia -- 17 Typological Accommodation in Central Siberia -- 18 Hunter-Gatherers in South Siberia -- Part VI North America -- 19 Primitivism in Hunter and Gatherer Languages: The Case of Eskimo Words for Snow -- 20 Language Shift in the Subarctic and Central Plains -- 21 Uto-Aztecan Hunter-Gatherers -- Part VII South America.
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