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The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

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The content is substantial, well organized, and visually appealing. The author does an outstanding job in connecting the material to real-life issues.

For use as a textbook, ideally it should have more exercises and questions for students. The "student activities" section at the end of each chapter merely points the reader to the companion workbook, which admittedly has some great stuff, but too often the exercises in it are just "go to these websites and write an essay about them".

This book is great, easy to read and involving. I knew nothing about linguistics or anthropology and started reading this book for a class, and I can't put it down. I look forward to my homework. The book tells consepts then explains them with stories and definitions. this helps with learning, interest and remembering.

This book was required for my Anthropology of Language and Culture class. While it was a tad dry at times, it has solid examples and was overall helpful to my learning process. If it is required for a class definitely purchase this book without hesitation. Also if you're interested in the Anthropology of Language this book will be VERY interesting to you, as it was to me. A safe buy to say the least!