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The Calusa: Linguistic and Cultural Origins and Relationships (review)

The Calusa: Linguistic and Cultural Origins and Relationships (review) BOOK REVIEWS language education. These portions of the book will be useful to a wide range of readers­ from historians of education to community-based language activists. In the last chapter, Morgan draws on her own experiences of working on Nakoda language efforts. This offers readers an inside view of the challenges and controversies surrounding such work and reminds us that action anthropology has deep roots in the Americanist tradition of which Morgan is a part. The Calusa: Linguistic and Cultural Origins and Relationships. JULIAN GRANBERRY. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 86. $30.00 (paper). Reviewed by Geoffrey Kimball, Indiana University Granberry's preface to this slim volume suggests that he has already received some daunting, perhaps even negative, criticism during the preparation of the work. He compares himself to Joseph Greenberg, whose Language in the Americas (1987) received a storm of criticism because of his conclusions, and Granberry expects similar criticism concerning the contents of his book. He probably is correct, for his conclusions­that the language of the Calusa Indians of southern Florida is a form of Tunica, a language historically attested to exist in central Mississippi and northern Louisiana, and that the language of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

The Calusa: Linguistic and Cultural Origins and Relationships (review)

Kimball, Geoffrey D.
Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 53 (4) – Sep 22, 2011
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BOOK REVIEWS language education. These portions of the book will be useful to a wide range of readers­ from historians of education to community-based language activists. In the last chapter, Morgan draws on her own experiences of working on Nakoda language efforts. This offers readers an inside view of the challenges and controversies surrounding such work and reminds us that action anthropology has deep roots in the Americanist tradition of which Morgan is a part. The Calusa: Linguistic and Cultural Origins and Relationships. JULIAN GRANBERRY. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 86. $30.00 (paper). Reviewed by Geoffrey Kimball, Indiana University Granberry's preface to this slim volume suggests that he has already received some daunting, perhaps even negative, criticism during the preparation of the work. He compares himself to Joseph Greenberg, whose Language in the Americas (1987) received a storm of criticism because of his conclusions, and Granberry expects similar criticism concerning the contents of his book. He probably is correct, for his conclusions­that the language of the Calusa Indians of southern Florida is a form of Tunica, a language historically attested to exist in central Mississippi and northern Louisiana, and that the language of the

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