Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska / Edition 1

by Chase Hensel

Overview

In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900195094779
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/28/1996
Series:	Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Editorial Reviews

"A unique, sparkling piece of work that should attract wide attention."—Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas, Austin

"Hensel is a superb linguistic anthropologist....It's definitely a significant contribution to the field."—William J. de Reuse, University of Arizona

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