Indigenous Cosmologies of the Early Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Challenges to biblical linguistics made it increasingly difficult to map human diversity. Consequently, early eighteenth-century language philosophers turned to the specificity of place to integrate language and national genealogy. Edward Lhwyd designed a comprehensive study of British languages. I...

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Main Author: Rivett, Sarah
Format: Book
Language:unknown
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492564.003.0004