Emanuel J Drechsel: 2 books

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English

by Emanuel J. Drechsel
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the...

Anthropologists and Indians in the New South

by Patricia Barker Lerch, Lisa J. Lefler, Raymond D. Fogelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002 An important collection of essays that looks at the changing relationships between anthropologists and Indians at the turn of the millennium. Southern Indians have experienced much change in the last half of the 20th century. In rapid succession...