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Talking like children : language and the production of age in the Marshall Islands /

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Talking Like Children is a series of captivating stories that show how age comes to be. Elise Berman analyzes adoption negotiations, efforts to keep food, and debates about supposed child abuse. In these situations, age differences emerge through the decisions people make, the emotions they feel, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berman, Elise (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Series:Oxford studies in the anthropology of language.
Subjects:
Intergenerational communication > Marshall Islands.
Age groups > Marshall Islands.
Exchange > Social aspects > Marshall Islands.
Marshall Islands > Social life and customs.
Marshall (Archipel) > Mœurs et coutumes.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.
Intergenerational communication
Exchange > Social aspects
Age groups
Children
Families
Language and languages
Manners and customs
Marshallese language
Marshall Islands
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • "Give me my child" : an ethnographic introduction to the power of age in Marshallese social life
  • What is age and where does it come from? : A theoretical analysis of age and language socialization
  • On the road : how to get out of giving to adults
  • "Give me my food" : how to avoid giving to another child and produce relative age
  • Aged agency : what children can do that adults cannot (and vice versa)
  • Socializing age differences.