Language Anthropology

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    • Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
    • By: Steven Mithen
    • Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today

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    • Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
    • By: Keith H. Basso
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • For more than 30 years, anthropologist Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names - where they come from and what they mean to the Apaches....

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    • Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Daniel Everett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

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    • How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    • By: David W. Anthony
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 704 ratings
    • Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

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    • The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
    • By: Jack D. Forbes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
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    • This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native-American and African-American peoples throughout the hemisphere....

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    • How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age
    • By: Steven Mithen
    • Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words....

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    • How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
    • By: Don Kulick
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over 30 years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying....

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    • Multilingualism, Self and Society
    • By: Viorica Marian
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • Empowering and practical, this is the perfect guide for anyone interested in how language really works....

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    • Why to Err Is Human
    • By: Michael Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Our species, it appears, is hardwired to get things wrong in myriad different ways....

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    • How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
    • By: Gaia Vince
    • Narrated by: Gaia Vince
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years....

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