The sense of smell has widely been viewed as inferior to the other senses. This is reflected in the lack of treatment of olfaction in ethnographies and linguistic descriptions. We present novel data from the olfactory lexicon of Seri, a language isolate of Mexico, which sheds new light onto the possibilities for olfactory terminologies. We also present the Seri smellscape, highlighting the cultural significance of odors in Seri culture that, along with the olfactory language, is now under threat as globalization takes hold and traditional ways of life are transformed.
{"title":"How Changing Lifestyles Impact Seri Smellscapes and Smell Language","authors":"C. O'Meara, A. Majid","doi":"10.1353/ANL.2016.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ANL.2016.0024","url":null,"abstract":"The sense of smell has widely been viewed as inferior to the other senses. This is reflected in the lack of treatment of olfaction in ethnographies and linguistic descriptions. We present novel data from the olfactory lexicon of Seri, a language isolate of Mexico, which sheds new light onto the possibilities for olfactory terminologies. We also present the Seri smellscape, highlighting the cultural significance of odors in Seri culture that, along with the olfactory language, is now under threat as globalization takes hold and traditional ways of life are transformed.","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"58 1","pages":"107 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ANL.2016.0024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46309212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article documents and linguistically analyzes all known place names in the Gros Ventre language. Analysis of names both from the perspective of a supra-tribal system of place names on the Northern Plains and with respect to a naming system specific to Gros Ventre (which we compare to that of Arapaho) allows a better understanding of the ethnogeographic process of identifying a particular region as a homeland. Postcontact names reveal shifts in the system; nonetheless, the overall homelanding process remains largely intact in its structure and ideology, despite major changes in the types of place names used resulting from the shift from nomadism, and attendant cosmological perspectives on the land, to a settled reservation existence.
{"title":"Gros Ventre Ethnogeography and Place Names: A Diachronic Perspective","authors":"Andrew Cowell, A. Taylor, Terry Brockie","doi":"10.1353/ANL.2016.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ANL.2016.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article documents and linguistically analyzes all known place names in the Gros Ventre language. Analysis of names both from the perspective of a supra-tribal system of place names on the Northern Plains and with respect to a naming system specific to Gros Ventre (which we compare to that of Arapaho) allows a better understanding of the ethnogeographic process of identifying a particular region as a homeland. Postcontact names reveal shifts in the system; nonetheless, the overall homelanding process remains largely intact in its structure and ideology, despite major changes in the types of place names used resulting from the shift from nomadism, and attendant cosmological perspectives on the land, to a settled reservation existence.","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"58 1","pages":"132 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ANL.2016.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46234394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abbott, Clifford 2000 Oneida. Languages of the World, Materials 301. Munich: LINCOM Europa. 2006 Oneida Teaching Grammar. Available online at áhttp://www.uwgb.edu/ Oneida/Grammar.htmlñ. Abbott, Clifford, Amos Christjohn, and Maria Hinton 1996 An Oneida Dictionary. Oneida, Wis.: Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson 2015 Morphological Complexity à la Oneida. In Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity, edited by Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, and Greville Corbett, 69—92. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lounsbury, Floyd 1953 Oneida Verb Morphology. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 48. New Haven: Yale University Press. Michelson, Karin, and Mercy Doxtator 2002 Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Michelson, Karin, and Catherine Price 2011 The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1 to 12. Native Languages: A Support Document for the Teaching of Language Patterns: Oneida, Cayuga, and Mohawk Resource Guide. Ottawa: Ontario Ministry of Education.
{"title":"Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization ed. by Mari C. Jones and Sarah Ogilvie, and: Endangered Languages and New Technologies ed. by Mari C. Jones (review)","authors":"Claire Bowern","doi":"10.1353/ANL.2016.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ANL.2016.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abbott, Clifford 2000 Oneida. Languages of the World, Materials 301. Munich: LINCOM Europa. 2006 Oneida Teaching Grammar. Available online at áhttp://www.uwgb.edu/ Oneida/Grammar.htmlñ. Abbott, Clifford, Amos Christjohn, and Maria Hinton 1996 An Oneida Dictionary. Oneida, Wis.: Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson 2015 Morphological Complexity à la Oneida. In Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity, edited by Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, and Greville Corbett, 69—92. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lounsbury, Floyd 1953 Oneida Verb Morphology. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 48. New Haven: Yale University Press. Michelson, Karin, and Mercy Doxtator 2002 Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Michelson, Karin, and Catherine Price 2011 The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1 to 12. Native Languages: A Support Document for the Teaching of Language Patterns: Oneida, Cayuga, and Mohawk Resource Guide. Ottawa: Ontario Ministry of Education.","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"58 1","pages":"211 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ANL.2016.0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44242791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Youth Language Practices in African and Beyond ed. by Jeffrey Heath and Andrea Hollington (review)","authors":"J. Heath","doi":"10.1353/ANL.2016.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ANL.2016.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"58 1","pages":"215 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ANL.2016.0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43647193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Glimpses of Oneida Life by Karin Michelson, Norma Kennedy, and Mercy Doxtator (review)","authors":"Nancy Bonvillain","doi":"10.1353/ANL.2016.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ANL.2016.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"58 1","pages":"209 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ANL.2016.0027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49209609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Negev Arabic displays a unique spatial system characterized by referential complementarity: Intrinsic, Relative, and Absolute frames of reference serve all speakers and are selected according to properties of the Ground. The Absolute frame of reference, employing cardinal directions, represents the lateral axis of all Ground-objects and serves as a default frame for problematic cases, such as modern, culturally alien objects; this frame of reference largely replaces right and left and serves, e.g., as a means to locate Figures in non-prototypical axial positions or in relation to modern Ground-objects. As in other Arabic dialects, cardinal directions also encode cultural, metaphorical, and symbolic meanings—especially east and west; north and south have not developed cultural salience.
{"title":"Spatial Language and Culture: Cardinal Directions in Negev Arabic","authors":"Letizia Cerqueglini, R. Henkin","doi":"10.1353/ANL.2016.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ANL.2016.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Negev Arabic displays a unique spatial system characterized by referential complementarity: Intrinsic, Relative, and Absolute frames of reference serve all speakers and are selected according to properties of the Ground. The Absolute frame of reference, employing cardinal directions, represents the lateral axis of all Ground-objects and serves as a default frame for problematic cases, such as modern, culturally alien objects; this frame of reference largely replaces right and left and serves, e.g., as a means to locate Figures in non-prototypical axial positions or in relation to modern Ground-objects. As in other Arabic dialects, cardinal directions also encode cultural, metaphorical, and symbolic meanings—especially east and west; north and south have not developed cultural salience.","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"58 1","pages":"171 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ANL.2016.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49070244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bulletin 72. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1925 Accompanying Papers. In Fortieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 23—658. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. Nichols, John D., and Earl Nyholm 1995 A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Rhodes, Richard A. 1993 Eastern Ojibwa—Chippewa—Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Voorhis, Paul H. 1971 New Note on the Mesquakie (Fox) Language. International Journal of American Linguistics 37: 63—75. Whittaker, Gordon 2005 A Concise Dictionary of the Sauk Language. Stroud, Okla.: The Sac and Fox National Public Library.
72年公告。华盛顿特区:政府印刷局。1925随附文件。《美国民族学局给史密森学会秘书的第四十届年度报告》,第23-658页。华盛顿特区:政府印刷局。约翰·D·尼科尔斯和厄尔·尼霍姆1995《明尼苏达奥吉布语简明词典》。明尼阿波利斯:明尼苏达大学出版社。1993年《东奥吉布瓦-奇佩瓦-渥太华词典》。柏林:穆顿·德·格吕特。Paul H. Voorhis, 1971关于Mesquakie (Fox)语言的新注释。国际语言学杂志37:63-75。戈登·惠特克,2005,《苏克语简明词典》。斯特劳,俄克拉荷马州。:萨克和福克斯国家公共图书馆。
{"title":"Communities of Practice: An Alaskan Native Model for Language Teaching and Learning ed. by Patrick Marlow, Sabine Siekmann (review)","authors":"Patrick Moore","doi":"10.1353/ANL.2016.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ANL.2016.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Bulletin 72. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1925 Accompanying Papers. In Fortieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 23—658. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. Nichols, John D., and Earl Nyholm 1995 A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Rhodes, Richard A. 1993 Eastern Ojibwa—Chippewa—Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Voorhis, Paul H. 1971 New Note on the Mesquakie (Fox) Language. International Journal of American Linguistics 37: 63—75. Whittaker, Gordon 2005 A Concise Dictionary of the Sauk Language. Stroud, Okla.: The Sac and Fox National Public Library.","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"8 1","pages":"102 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ANL.2016.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66192840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative evidence is provided for a number of developments in the historical phonology of Panará, a Jê language spoken in central Brazil, in particular for the reflexes of the rhotic *ɾ reconstructed for the Proto–Northern Jê ancestral language (and, in many cases, for Proto-Jê as well). Aside from their contributions to the understanding of a family much of whose history remains unknown, the diachronic hypotheses presented and evaluated here touch on issues of general interest for the field of historical linguistics, such as the phonetic grounding of sound change and its relation to regularity, the detection of borrowings, and the nature of subgrouping arguments.
{"title":"On the Development of the Proto–Northern Jê Rhotic in Panará Historical Phonology","authors":"Fernando O. de Carvalho","doi":"10.1353/anl.2016.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anl.2016.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Comparative evidence is provided for a number of developments in the historical phonology of Panará, a Jê language spoken in central Brazil, in particular for the reflexes of the rhotic *ɾ reconstructed for the Proto–Northern Jê ancestral language (and, in many cases, for Proto-Jê as well). Aside from their contributions to the understanding of a family much of whose history remains unknown, the diachronic hypotheses presented and evaluated here touch on issues of general interest for the field of historical linguistics, such as the phonetic grounding of sound change and its relation to regularity, the detection of borrowings, and the nature of subgrouping arguments.","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"58 1","pages":"52 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/anl.2016.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66192723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages by Nancy C. Dorian (review)","authors":"L. Grenoble","doi":"10.1353/ANL.2016.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ANL.2016.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"58 1","pages":"104 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ANL.2016.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66192856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract: This article surveys and analyzes data from a number of aboriginal languages of Oregon, investigating the hypothesis that Sir Francis Drake may have landed somewhere on the Oregon coast in 1579 rather than in California, as is usually assumed. This study is partially motivated by conflicting navigational records in surviving accounts of Drake’s voyage. There is no hard linguistic evidence for an Oregon landing, though there are a few plausible semantic and phonetic matches between items on Drake’s word list and data from Oregon languages. Though themselves inconclusive as evidence, these data should be reconsidered in light of any new archaeological evidence.
{"title":"Francis Drake’s 1579 Voyage: Assessing Linguistic Evidence for an Oregon Landing","authors":"J. Lyon","doi":"10.1353/ANL.2016.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ANL.2016.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article surveys and analyzes data from a number of aboriginal languages of Oregon, investigating the hypothesis that Sir Francis Drake may have landed somewhere on the Oregon coast in 1579 rather than in California, as is usually assumed. This study is partially motivated by conflicting navigational records in surviving accounts of Drake’s voyage. There is no hard linguistic evidence for an Oregon landing, though there are a few plausible semantic and phonetic matches between items on Drake’s word list and data from Oregon languages. Though themselves inconclusive as evidence, these data should be reconsidered in light of any new archaeological evidence.","PeriodicalId":35350,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Linguistics","volume":"50 1","pages":"1 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ANL.2016.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66192705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}