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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a linguistic window into twenty-first-century hunter-gatherer societies - how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies. It challenges assumptions regarding the lack of social dynamism in hunter-gatherer societies and shows that their languages are no different from other languages.
Trade Review'Overall, this is a fascinating volume that presents many inter-related case studies of how language histories are shaped by HG lifeways, and especially their interaction with neighbouring food producers.' John Mansfield, LINGUIST List
Table of ContentsPart I. Introductory Chapters: 1. Hunter-gatherer anthropology and language Tom Güldemann, Patrick McConvell and Richard Rhodes; 2. Genetic landscape of present day hunter-gatherer groups Ellen Gunnasdóttir and Mark Stoneking; 3. Linguistc typology and hunter-gatherer languages Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols; 4. Ethnobiology and the hunter-gatherer/food-producer divide Cecil Brown; Part II. Africa: 5. Hunters and gatherers in East Africa and the case of Ontoga (Southwest Ethiopia) Mauro Tosco and Graziano Savà; 6. The Khoe-Kwadi family in Southern Africa Tom Güldemann; Part III. Tropical Asia: 7. Hunter-gatherers in South and Southeast Asia: the Mla-Bri Jørgen Rischel; 8. Languages in the Malay Peninsula Niclas Burenhult; 9. Language in the Andaman Islands Juliette Blevins; 10. Historical linguistics and Philippine hunter-gatherers Lawrence A. Reid; 11. Hunter-gatherers of Borneo and their languages Antonia Soriente; Part IV. New Guinea and Australia: 12. The linguistic situation in near Oceana before agriculture Malcolm Ross; 13. Language, locality and lifestyle in New Guinea Mark Donahue; 14. Small language survival and large language expansion in aboriginal Australia Peter Sutton; 15. Language and population shift in pre-colonial Australia: non-Pama-Nyungan languages Mark Harvey; 16. The spread of Pama-Nyungan in Australia Patrick McConvell; Part V. Northeastern Eurasia: 17. Typological accommodation in central Siberia Edward J. Vadja; 18. Hunter-gatherers in Eastern Siberia Gregory D. S. Anderson and K. David Harrison; Part VI. North America: 19. Primitivism in hunter and gatherer languages: the case of Eskimo words for snow Willem J. de Reuse; 20. Language shift in the Subarctic and central Plains Richard A. Rhodes; 21. Uto-Aztecan hunter-gatherers Jane H. Hill; Part VII. South America: 22. Language and subsistence patterns in the Amazonian Vaupés Patience Epps; 23. The Southern Plains and the Continental Tip Alejandra Vidal and José Braunstein.
