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The Languages of Urban Africa ed. by Fiona McLaughlin (review)

The Languages of Urban Africa ed. by Fiona McLaughlin (review) BOOK REVIEWS of Difference, Imitation, and Alterity" (pp. 213--32), we are plunged into the realm of spirit possession, witchcraft, secret languages, name taboos, territories depopulated historically by marauding Fulani slave-snatchers, and riverine communication networks. This paper is too condensed and enigmatic to convey how all these ingredients shaped language-contact patterns in the Nigeria-Cameroon border (see my review of Storch's book Secret Manipulations in this issue). Andy Chebanne, in "The Eastern Kalahari Khoe: A Focus on Inter-Khoisan EthnoLanguage Dynamics around the Makgadaikgadi Salt Pans of Botswana" (pp. 233--50), describes the emergence of a mixed inter-Khoisan variety called Tciretcire as the original languages lose vitality, an alternative to switching to the hegemonic language Setswana. Shades of Chinook Jargon? Akira Takada's "Language Contact and Social Change in North-Central Namibia: Socialization via Singing and Dancing Activities among the !Xun San" (pp. 251--67) shows how the child-rearing practices documented by Melvin Konner in the 1970s are modernizing. It ends with a close analysis of children's cooperative singing and dancing at a Christian wedding. Hitomi Ono's "Two Types of Kinship Classification Found among the Khoe Languages­Relative and Absolute Calculations in Determining the Seniority among Classificatory Siblings" (pp. 269--78) teases apart the conditions under which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

The Languages of Urban Africa ed. by Fiona McLaughlin (review)

Heath, Jeffrey.
Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 55 (4) – Oct 1, 2013
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BOOK REVIEWS of Difference, Imitation, and Alterity" (pp. 213--32), we are plunged into the realm of spirit possession, witchcraft, secret languages, name taboos, territories depopulated historically by marauding Fulani slave-snatchers, and riverine communication networks. This paper is too condensed and enigmatic to convey how all these ingredients shaped language-contact patterns in the Nigeria-Cameroon border (see my review of Storch's book Secret Manipulations in this issue). Andy Chebanne, in "The Eastern Kalahari Khoe: A Focus on Inter-Khoisan EthnoLanguage Dynamics around the Makgadaikgadi Salt Pans of Botswana" (pp. 233--50), describes the emergence of a mixed inter-Khoisan variety called Tciretcire as the original languages lose vitality, an alternative to switching to the hegemonic language Setswana. Shades of Chinook Jargon? Akira Takada's "Language Contact and Social Change in North-Central Namibia: Socialization via Singing and Dancing Activities among the !Xun San" (pp. 251--67) shows how the child-rearing practices documented by Melvin Konner in the 1970s are modernizing. It ends with a close analysis of children's cooperative singing and dancing at a Christian wedding. Hitomi Ono's "Two Types of Kinship Classification Found among the Khoe Languages­Relative and Absolute Calculations in Determining the Seniority among Classificatory Siblings" (pp. 269--78) teases apart the conditions under which

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