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When languages die : the extinction of the World's languages and the erosion of human knowledge / K. David Harrison.

By: Harrison, K. David
Language: English Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: x, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780195181920
Contents:
1 A World of Many (Fewer) Voices -- 2 An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species -- Case Study: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words -- 3 Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning -- Case Study: Nomads of Western Mongolia -- 4 An Atlas in the Mind -- Case Study: Wheel of Fortune and a Blessing -- 5 Silent Storytellers, Lost Legends -- Case Study: New Rice versus Old Knowledge -- 6 Endangered Number Systems: Counting to Twenty on Your Toes -- Case Study: The Leaf-Cup People, India's Modern Primitives -- 7 Worlds within Words.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KKC [HAR -] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M48140
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliography (p. 263-283) and index.

1 A World of Many (Fewer) Voices -- 2 An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species -- Case Study: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words -- 3 Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning -- Case Study: Nomads of Western Mongolia -- 4 An Atlas in the Mind -- Case Study: Wheel of Fortune and a Blessing -- 5 Silent Storytellers, Lost Legends -- Case Study: New Rice versus Old Knowledge -- 6 Endangered Number Systems: Counting to Twenty on Your Toes -- Case Study: The Leaf-Cup People, India's Modern Primitives -- 7 Worlds within Words.

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