| Select number of records to
display per page:
|
Sort by
|
|
1.
|
|
|
Rongorongo(Hardback)
The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text
Clarendon Press
Published:
11/12/1997
Easter Island's rongorongo script is Oceania's only known writing system predating the 20th century. The author documents comprehensively, for the first time, the history, traditions, and texts of t...
|
In Stock:
1
| List Price:
|
£393.00 |
|
Our Price:
£343.88
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2.
|
|
|
On Reconstructing Grammar(Hardback)
Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax
Oxford University Press Inc
Published:
03/09/1998
Gildea has two goals in this book, first to argue that grammaticalization theory has advanced to the point that it can be used with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languag...
|
In Stock:
None
| List Price:
|
£122.50 |
|
Our Price:
£107.19
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3.
|
|
|
Creating Context in Andean Cultures(Paperback)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published:
01/09/1996
This collection of previously unpublished papers explores various indigenous Andean languages and cultures in the context of new anthropological thinking about `texts' and textuality. The contributo...
|
In Stock:
None
| List Price:
|
£98.00 |
|
Our Price:
£85.75
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4.
|
|
|
Speaking Through the Silence(Hardback)
Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java
Oxford University Press Inc
Published:
01/06/1998
Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women use conversation to construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical social order. She does so by uncovering the str...
|
In Stock:
None
| List Price:
|
£180.00 |
|
Our Price:
£157.50
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5.
|
|
|
Telling Our Selves(Hardback)
Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
Oxford University Press Inc
Published:
01/05/1996
Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-Natives use talk about hunting, fishing, and processing to construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities. The focus is on the enactment of ethnicity ...
|
In Stock:
None
| List Price:
|
£97.00 |
|
Our Price:
£84.88
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.
|
|
|
7.
|
|
|
8.
|
|
|
The Powers of Genre(Hardback)
Interpreting Haya Oral Literature
Oxford University Press Inc
Published:
01/11/1998
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from ...
|
In Stock:
None
| List Price:
|
£157.50 |
|
Our Price:
£137.81
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9.
|
|
|
10.
|
|
|
Classificatory Particles in Kilivila(Hardback)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published:
14/03/1996
Senft examines the system of classificatory particles - the divisions of the noun lexicon into distinct classes - in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobrian Islanders of Papua New Guinea...
|
In Stock:
None
| List Price:
|
£75.00 |
|
Our Price:
£65.63
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|