Words in motion : toward a global lexicon / edited by Carol Gluck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

"On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, fr...

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Other Authors: Gluck, Carol, 1941-, Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2009.
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