Showing papers by "Fredrik Barth published in 1977"

On Two Views of the Swat Pushtun [and Comments]

Abstract: languages. The most unexpected finding will be that the language of food offerings uses contrasting combinations with a meaning of totality comparable to antithetical idiomatic expressions, a stylistic feature peculiar to verbal languages and one for which Dravidian tongues have a predilection. Though the ritual of naivedya isonly an imperfect language, it cannot be denied, I think, that it uses linguistic procedures and that some of its symbols have linguistic meaning.