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

Name: Power Sharing
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195111972
Price: 28250 KES
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ISBN: 9780195111972

by Elizabeth Keating

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Format Hardback

Book Series Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

ISBN-10 0195111974

ISBN-13 9780195111972

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 7th, 1999

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 544 grams

Dimensions 23.90 x 16.00 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Sociolinguistics Gender studies, gender groups Anthropology

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This text challenges theories on the nature of social stratification. The author went to Pohnpei and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this view of how language works to create power and social inequality.

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.

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