Language and Thought: Anthropological Issues

The Hague: Mouton, 1977. Octavo in white & purple illus DJ; xiii, 525 p.; 24 cm. bibliographies and indexes. Previous owner's bookplate to verso front wrapper; else A Very Fine ; an unread (as new) copy. Hardcover. ISBN: 902797540X

Chapters entitled: Introduction / William C. McCormack -- [Linguistic models] -- Linguistic relativity: myths and methods / Einar Haugen -- Wordless thoughts / Zeno Vandler -- Some notes on Central Eskimo color terminology / Albert Heinrich -- The terminology of time in Romanian / Paul Schveiger -- "Meaning" for the linguist and "meaning" for the anthropologist / Yoshihko Ikegami -- Linguistic models in anthropology / Edgar A. Gregersen -- On speech and thought / John W.M. Verhaar -- [Ethnoscience] -- The synthetic informant model: on the simulation of large lexical/semantic fields / Oswald Werner -- Tahitian ethnozoological classification and fuzzy logic / Yves Lemaitre -- On an African classificatory system / Jean-Paul Lebeuf -- Ethnoscience as a research paradigm / C. Gregory Knight -- Australian kin classification / H.W. Scheffler -- Kinship terminologies: the Okinawan case / Masako Tanaka -- [Ethnohermeneutics] -- Kachin social categories and methodologhical sins / F.K. Lehman -- "Must" and "ought": problems of translation in Sanskritic Hindu law / J.Duncan M. Derrett -- Ethnolinguistic introduction to Japanese literature / Sayo Yotsukura -- Ethnohermeneutics: on the interpretation of intended meaning among the Kpelle of Liberia / Beryl L. Bellman -- Bodily symbolism in Hindu Ashrams and the replication of social experience / Frances N. Ferguson -- Prestations and prayers: two homologous systems in Northern India / R.S. Khare -- [Oppositions] -- Correlation of contradictions: a Tibetan semantic device / Robert B. Ekvall -- Sex, nature, and culture in Ponapean myth / J.L. Fischer -- Not in ourselves, but in our stars / Jean-Paul Dumont -- Conceptual patterns in Yoruba culture / Lucy Jayne Kamau -- On the overlapping of categories on the social sciences / Ferruccio Rossi-Landi -- [Functions, structures, and values] -- The semiotic character of the aesthetic function as defined by the Prague Linguistic Circle / Irene Portis Winner -- Interrelationships of individual, cultural, and pan-human values / C.R. Welte -- The nature of value and the experience entities / George G. Haydu -- [Discussion] -- Summary of discussion // Anthropological linguistics -- Congresses. Thought and thinking -- Congresses. Langage et langues -- Congrès. Ethnolinguistique -- Congrès.