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An Illustrated Dictionary of Navajo Landscape Terms

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4331-6057-8
Verlag: Lang, Peter
Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.2019
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The Navajo language (Diné bizaad) has a vocabulary of landscape terms that allows speakers to communicate about their environment. This book documents that vocabulary and provides photographic illustration of many of the terms. The meanings of these terms seldom match the English-language terms one-to-one. Terms include explicit reference to earth materials such as water or rock/stone. Rather than alphabetically, this book is organized by material and form categories.

This dictionary is a valuable resource for language preservation in schools and elsewhere, and for linguists, anthropologists, geographers, and earth scientists interested in indigenous conceptualization of landscape and environment.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781433160578
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4331-6057-8
  • Verlag: Lang, Peter
  • Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.2019
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2019
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 323 g
  • Seiten: 98
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 231 x 11 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Weitere Mitwirkende

List of Figures – Saad Altsé Si’ánígíí (Preface) – Project History – A Note on the Methodology – Acknowledgments – The Organization of This Book – Section 1: Water-related Features – Section 2: Elongated Depressions – Section 3: Open Spaces, Gaps, and Holes – Section 4: Elevations and Rock Formations – Section 5: World, Land, Place – Section 6: Vegetation – Section 7: Earth Materials – Index to Navajo-language Terms – Index to English-language Terms.