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Author Keating, Elizabeth

Title Power Sharing : Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 23
Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 23.
Contents Contents; Introduction; 1. The Ethnographic Setting; 2. What Are Honorifics?; 3. Paths and Regions in Honorific Speech: Hierarchy of Place and Access to Status; 4. Honorific Possession: Grammatical Relations of Control and Permanence; 5. Women's Power Etiquette: Relationships between Gender and Honorifics; 6. Positioned Knowledge: Constructing Asymmetrical Epistemologies; 7. Valuing Stratification: Honor in Oratory and Feasting Practices; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary This text challenges theories on the nature of social stratification. The author went to Pohnpei and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this view of how language works to create power and social inequality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Chiefdoms -- Micronesia (Federated States) -- Madolenihmw
Power (Social sciences) -- Micronesia (Federated States) -- Madolenihmw
Sex role -- Micronesia (Federated States) -- Madolenihmw
Language and culture -- Micronesia (Federated States) -- Madolenihmw
Micronesian languages -- Honorific
Micronesian languages -- Sex differences
Chiefdoms
Language and culture
Manners and customs
Micronesian languages -- Sex differences
Power (Social sciences)
Sex role
SUBJECT Madolenihmw (Micronesia) -- Social life and customs
Subject Micronesia (Federated States) -- Madolenihmw
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98036857
ISBN 9780195354713
0195354710
1280529369
9781280529368
1429404418
9781429404419