Currents in Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Sol Tax (Studies in Anthropology (Mouton Publishers), 3.)

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles. All studies draw heavily on the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British English dialects comprising some 2.5 million words. Besides an account of FRED and the advantages which a functional-typological framework offers for the study of dialect grammar, the volume includes the following three substantial studies. Tanja Herrmann's study is the first systematic cross-regional study of relativization strategies for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and four major dialect areas in England. In her research design Hermann has included a number of issues crucial in typological research on relative clauses, above all the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy. Lukas Pietsch investigates the so-called Northern Subject Rule, a special agreement phenomenon known from Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. His study is primarily based on the Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech, but also on the FRED and SED data (Survey of English Dialects) for the North of England. Susanne Wagner is concerned with the phenomenon of pronominal gender, focussing especially on the typologically rather unique semantic gender system in the dialects of Southwest England. This volume will be of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone interested in the structure of spontaneous spoken English. Wilmington Honorary Degree Citation Preface Autobiography of Santiago The Data Base in Economic Anthropology Economic Anthropology and Anthropological Economics World View and Social Relations: An Extension of Tax's Analysis The Influence of Sol Tax on Mexican Social Anthropology The Season for Witchhunts Looking Beyond the Municipio in Chiapas: Problems and Prospects in Studying Up The "Municipios" of Northern Spain: A View from the Fountain Aleksandr Voeikov's Travels in Yucatn, 1874 Change in American Indian Kinship Systems: The Dakota Multilineal Descent: A Coast Salish Strategy We Who Act Right: The Persistent Identity of Cherokee Indians The Uses of History of Ethnic Identity: The Lumbee Case Basque Immigrants: Contrasting Patterns of Adaption in Argentina and the American West Leadership Among the Indians of the Northern Woodlands The Will-o'-the-Wisp of Indian Unity Political Constraints on Economic Development: The Dakota Reservations The Case of the Protracted Pregnancy Transepistemological Understanding: Wisdom Beyond Theories Microanalysis and Action Anthropology Applied, Action, Radical, and Committed Anthropology Beyond Empathy: The Emergence of an Action Anthropology in the Life and Career of Sol Tax The American Indian Chicago Conference Memorandum to a Coast Salish Band on Politics and Policy Making Action Anthropology and the Self-Help/Mutual-Aid movement Action Anthropology in College Administration Selected Poems