Author: Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110820773
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Author: Albert Buell Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Author: Michael Heads
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041023
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 507
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A fascinating analysis of the main patterns of distribution and evolution of the Australasian biota.
Author: Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783111766768
Category : Melanesia
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Author: Walter Beale Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Author: R. J. May
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760465216
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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In a previous volume, State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty-Five Years (2001, reprinted by ANU E Press in 2004), a collection of papers by the author published between 1971 and 2001 was put together to mark Papua New Guinea’s first 25 years as an independent state. This volume presents a collection of papers written between 2001 and 2021, which update the story of political and social development in Papua New Guinea in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The chapters cover a range of topics, from an evaluation of proposals for political reform in the early 2000s, a review of the discussion of ‘failing states’ in the island Pacific and the shift to limited preferential voting in 2007, to a detailed account of political developments from the move against Sir Michael Somare in 2011 to the election of Prime Minister Marape and his performance to 2022. There are also chapters on language policy, external and internal security, religious fundamentalism and national identity, and the sustainability of economic growth.
Author: John Connell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134938314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Papua New Guinea is the first book to explore the economic development of this socially complex, rapidly changing nation. Subjects discussed include: * rapid economic growth and political conflict * civil war on the island of Bougainville * population growth and urbanisation * mining: gold, copper and environmental conflicts * uneven development and social divisions.
Author: Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521429313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as post-modern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development.
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317610903
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language. Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.
Author: YouGuide Ltd
Publisher: YouGuide Ltd
ISBN: 1837062706
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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