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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Berman, Elise
Titre(s) : Talking like children [Texte imprimé] : language and the production of age in the Marshall Islands / Elise Berman
Publication : New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv, 207 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in anthropology of language
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in the anthropology of language
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-197) and index
"Children in the Marshall Islands do many things that adults do not. They walk around
half naked. They carry and eat food in public without offering it to others. They
talk about things they see rather than hiding uncomfortable truths. They explicitly
refuse to give. Why do they do these things? Many think these behaviors are a natural
result of children's innate immaturity. But Elise Berman argues that children are
actually taught to do things that adults avoid: to be rude, inappropriate, and immature.
Before children learn to be adults, they learn to be different from them. Berman's
main theoretical claim therefore is also a novel one: age emerges through interaction
and is a social production. In Talking Like Children, Berman analyzes a variety of
interactions in the Marshall Islands, all broadly based around exchange: adoption
negotiations, efforts to ask for or avoid giving away food, contentious debates about
supposed child abuse. In these dramas both large and small, age differences emerge
through the decisions people make, the emotions they feel, and the power they gain.
Berman's research includes a range of methods -- participant observation, video and
audio recordings, interviews, children's drawings -- that yield a significant corpus
of data including over 80 hours of recorded naturalistic social interaction. Presented
as a series of captivating stories, Talking Like Children is an intimate analysis
of speech and interaction that shows what age means. Like gender and race, age differences
are both culturally produced and socially important. The differences between Marshallese
children and adults give both groups the ability to manipulate social life in distinct
but often complementary ways. These differences produce culture itself. Talking Like
Children establishes age as a foundational social variable and a central concern of
anthropological and linguistic research."--bopoksgoogle.co.nz
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Language and the production of age in the Marshall Islands
Sujet(s) : Ethnolinguistique
Groupes d'âge -- --
Échange -- Société
Moeurs et coutumes -- Marshall (îles)
Indice(s) Dewey :
996.83 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Archipel Marshall
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190876982. - ISBN 0190876980. - ISBN 9780190876975. - ISBN 0190876972. -
ISBN 9780190877002 (erroné) (epub). - ISBN 9780190876999 (erroné) (updf). - ISBN 9780190877019
(erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45750863h
Notice n° :
FRBNF45750863
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : "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
