THE ETHNOSEMANTICS OF SORCERY IN HOUSE MADE OF DAWN

Authors

  • Guillermo Bartelt California State University, Northridge, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejls.v3i1.282

Keywords:

American Indian literature, stylolinguistics, ethnoscience

Abstract

Early to mid-twentieth-century ethnographies are consulted for the stylolinguistic interpretation of the ethnosemantics of sorcery in the native world of House Made of Dawn. Utilizing the resources of linguistic anthropology with a focus on ethnoscience, a portion of the cognitive system which reveals possible strategies for the identification of practitioners of witchcraft has been reconstructed.

Author Biography

  • Guillermo Bartelt, California State University, Northridge, USA
    Guillermo Bartelt is a sociolinguist with a focus on the English varieties of American Indians at the spoken as well as written levels.

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Published

2021-09-10

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021)

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