01836 a2200289 4500 0367785722 20250317100405.0 250312042021GB eng 9780367785727 Taylor & Francis GBP 42.99 BB 01 eng JHM thema JHM bic SOC002000 bisac LAN009050 bisac LAN009000 bisac SOC002010 bisac 306.44 bisac Andrew J. Strathern Language and Culture in Dialogue 1 Oxford Routledge 20210331 152 p In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between “language in particular” and “culture in general” by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and experience. In the book, the body is placed in the foreground for understanding language in culture, which helps in turn to understand how it enables us to adapt to the world of lived material experience. Written in an accessible style and drawing on an extensive corpus of primary field research from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Japan, Taiwan, Scotland, and Ireland, Strathern and Stewart present a world anthropology which links together European, North American, and Asia-Pacific approaches to the topic. Students and scholars alike of sociocultual anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and linguistics will benefit from this engaging work on how the various components of our culture are informed and shaped through language. Pamela J. Stewart A01 1697 1697