Hidden Likeness: Avoidance and Iconicity in Batek

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description In Batek, both iconic and avoidant speech forms only have the desired effect when their sounds are at the same time like, and different to, their referents. This necessary coexistence of likeness and difference in particular speech forms resonates with the sought for coexistence of alterity and affinity in Batek interpersonal relationships. Attention to how likeness and difference co-exist in moments when iconic and avoidant speech forms are uttered, thus challenges entrenched, binary notions of alterity and affinity in anthropological practice more broadly.
format Journal Article
author Rudge, Alice
author_facet Rudge, Alice
authorStr Rudge, Alice
author_letter Rudge, Alice
title Hidden Likeness: Avoidance and Iconicity in Batek
publisher Wiley
publishDate 2021
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/40357/

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