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El Monte's New Itineraries

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's El Monte (1954), one of the most influential books in Caribbean cultural history. H…

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Flyover Fictions

Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the "flyover country" trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.

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Pil Ho Kim,
Polarizing Dreams

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epicenter…

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Pil Ho Kim,
Polarizing Dreams

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epicenter…

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Eric S Henry
Keep Talking

Language is not merely a set of words and grammatical rules; it is a deeply cultural phenomenon we use to navigate our social lives and craft our identities. Linguistic anthropology situates language in t…

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Eric Henry
Keep Talking

Language is not merely a set of words and grammatical rules; it is a deeply cultural phenomenon we use to navigate our social lives and craft our identities. Linguistic anthropology situates language in t…

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Alexandra Y Aikhenvald
A Guide to Gender and Classifiers

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the numeral classifier systems of Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classe…

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Capturing Expressivity

This volume investigates the methods and techniques used for studying expressivity in language, particularly in language documentation settings. The chapters explore a variety of different expressive item…

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R M W Dixon
A New Grammar of Dyirbal

This book offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland. It includes updated analyses of key features of the language based on recent theoretical advances, and dr…

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Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World

This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participant…

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Freedoms of Speech

This collection brings together leading anthropologists and fresh new voices in the discipline to consider freedoms of speech with a wide comparative lens.

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J M Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos
Speaking in Tongues

Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues -taking the form of a dial…

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The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language

This volume brings together case studies and surveys of recent research to address foundational questions regarding the scope, structuring, use, and consequences of ritual language. The chapters examine t…

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J M Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos
Speaking in Tongues

Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues -taking the form of a dial…

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Luke Fleming
On Speaking Terms

On Speaking Terms examines the sociolinguistic and non-verbal codes that enact interpersonal avoidance relationships in more than one hundred societies.

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Janet Mcintosh
Kill Talk

The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This groundbreaking book offer…

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The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language

This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of how archaeology, genes, and language can be combined to shed light on the human past. It illustrates the extent to which linguistic, archaeo…

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The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa

This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in…

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The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes

This volume presents the first comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Chapters provide detailed descriptions of individual languages…

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Amelia Tseng
Empanadas, Pupusas, and Greens on the Side

"Washington, DC has been a hub of Latin American immigration since the 1970s, when many people fled conflict in Central America. This community arrived to a complex, majority-African American city wi…

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