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Talking Like Children : Language And The Production Of Age In The Marshall Islands Paperback English by Elise Berman - 22-02-2019

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Publisher	Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13	9780190876982
Author	Elise Berman
Book Format	Paperback
Language	English

Book Subtitle	Language And The Production Of Age In The Marshall Islands
Editorial Review	Want to have your comfortable understanding of age shaken up? Read Elisa Berman's book! It challenges the ubiquitous idea of age being biologically determined. She shows how and why it's different elsewhere - in this case on a tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands. You'll never again read social science that takes chronological age as an independent variable the same way. These are rather ideologies dressed as objective neutral facts about the world, and about humannature. Commonsense but unexamined assumptions about the naturalness of precise chronological age are actually ethnographically rare and historically recent. * Susan D. Blum, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UNC Charlotte * This is a remarkable book with a challenging thesis: that children are socialized to be different from adults. In other words, they learn to behave differently from adults through social interaction rather than being 'naturally' more naive. Beautifully written and clearly explained, this is both a neat theoretical intervention and a great book for the classroom. * Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor of Anthropology and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychology, Stanford University * Berman has written one of the most compelling ethnographies of children's lives since Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin defined the study of language socialization for anthropology. Not only is Berman's ethnography a rich and poignant analysis of Marshallese social life, it is a monumental rethinking of age and its significance for practice and theory in the social sciences. * Barbra Meek, Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Michigan * We usually think of age, like race and gender, as biological but Elise Berman shows through this beautifully written book that age is actually produced by the ways elders interact with them. It knocked my theoretical socks off. It will do that to you too as you get to know these vivid individuals inhabiting a sliver of land on an atoll in the endangered Marshall Islands. * Susan D. Blum, Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre D
About the Author	Elise Berman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has spent more than two years living, teaching, and conducting research in the Marshall Islands, and earned her PhD in the department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She has published in American Anthropologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Childhood, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. She is currently working on a project on language, race, and education in the Marshallese diaspora.
Publication Date	22-02-2019
Number of Pages	224

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