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Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich
with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in
Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred
Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred
places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet
Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing
institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to
review social boundaries between the religious and the secular,
these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the
ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting
and indefinite frontiers.
Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the
heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly
changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading
to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This
revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from
the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology,
to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture,
and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed:
How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new
languages emerge? How do children learn to use language
appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and
multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the
formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does
language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be
essential reading for all those interested in language and its
crucial role in our social lives.
Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the
heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly
changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading
to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This
revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from
the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology,
to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture,
and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed:
How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new
languages emerge? How do children learn to use language
appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and
multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the
formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does
language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be
essential reading for all those interested in language and its
crucial role in our social lives.
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