Power Sharing: Language, Rank, Gender, and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia

ISBN-13: 9780195111972 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 224 str.

Elizabeth Keating

Opis

What allows certain individuals and groups to maintain control over the actions and lives of others? Linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating went to the island of Pohnpei, in Micronesia, and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this inside view of how language works to create power and social inequality. This book challenges widely held theories on the nature of social stratification, including women's roles in creating hierarchy.

Recenzje

Thus this innovative consideration of how language is a tool for power-sharing, not dominance, in Pohnpeian society is a welcome clarification of consideration of rank and social stratification ... very readable