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Power Sharing: Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia - Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Keating, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas)
Power Sharing: Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia - Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
Keating, Elizabeth (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas)
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.
224 pages, 14 halftones, 1 map
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 7, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195111972 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 239 × 23 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |