Power Sharing: Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

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Brand: Oxford University Press, USA

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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...