Power Sharing - Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23
Release date:	September 1998
First published:	December 1998
Authors:	Elizabeth Keating (Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
Dimensions:	243 x 163 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-511197-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-19-511197-4
Barcode:	9780195111972

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