The Korowai of Irian Jaya - Their Language in Its Cultural Context (Hardcover, New)

Irian Jaya is the official name of the western half of New Guinea, a province of Indonesia since the 1960s. Its inhabitants are generally untouched by civilization, and most of their hundreds of native languages and cultures remain unstudied. Van Enk and de Vries gained access to one of the most isolated parts of Irian Jaya in order to study the Korowai, a tribe in southern Irian Jaya. The Korowai still use stone tools, live in tree-houses, and have no knowledge of the outside world. Van Enk and de Vries provide the first study of the Korowai language and culture. They reproduce oral texts that show patterns of grammar, discourse, and culture, and discuss the phonological, morphological, and syntactical aspects of the language. In the process, van Enk and de Vries reveal a number of key semantic fields and conceptual patterns such as kinship, counting, the role of lunar phases, and Korowai cosmology.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 9
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	July 1997
Authors:	Gerrit J.Van Enk (Lecturer in Linguistics) • Lourens de Vries (Lecturer in Linguistics)
Dimensions:	243 x 164 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-510551-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-510551-6
Barcode:	9780195105513

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