Power Sharing
Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; 23;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 January 1999
- ISBN 9780195111972
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 239x160x22 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 halftones, 1 map 0
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Short description:
Keating looks at the relationship between a number of variables in Micronesia: (language, power, social space, and genes), and how they interact to create and maintain the political hierarchy. In particular she looks at how the honorific speech (involving chiefs and cheiftesses) encodes relationships of `power sharing' in regard to ownership of resources. Keating shows in particular how women have an important role in constructing discourse about honour and thus create connections between the political hierarchy and positive emotional states. Her work makes a contribution to the study of how gender and power are created, negotiated and perpetuated in language.
MoreLong description:
What allows certain individuals and groups to maintain control over the actions and lives of others? Linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating went to the island of Pohnpei, in Micronesia, and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this inside view of how language works to create power and social inequality. This book challenges widely held theories on the nature of social stratification, including women's roles in creating hierarchy.
Thus this innovative consideration of how language is a tool for power-sharing, not dominance, in Pohnpeian society is a welcome clarification of consideration of rank and social stratification ... very readable
