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13 - Language, Locality and Lifestyle in New Guinea

from Part IV - New Guinea and Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2020

By
Mark Donohue
Edited by
Tom Güldemann ,
Patrick McConvell  and
Richard A. Rhodes
Tom Güldemann
Affiliation:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Patrick McConvell
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Richard A. Rhodes
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Summary

This chapter is intended to problematize the label ‘hunter-gatherer’, and to point out that, in the New Guinea area at least, we can identify linguistic differences between hunter-gatherer societies and their more agriculturally oriented neighbours. This is not to say that there is a hunter-gatherer ‘linguistic type’, merely to claim that there are differences between hunter-gatherer populations and their agriculturalist neighbours in this region.

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The Language of Hunter-Gatherers , pp. 337 - 355
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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