Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Language in strange and familiar places: A short introduction 1
4. The eternal and the ephemeral 9
5. Language preservation in strangely familiar places: How traditional skills have helped preserve Shaetlan 39
6. Hidden landscapes and the images of the “unseen”: from north-west Amazonia to the Middle Sepik region of New Guinea 75
7. The intersection of language, religion, identity, and scholarship: Opportunities for the revitalization of Ge’ez 131
8. Speaking of oneself in multi-term evidential systems: From the Himalayas to Amazonia 149
9. Ideological and communicative perspectives on divination amongst the people of Northern Ghana 193
10. Beyond participants–researchers–research outsiders: food talk and the (co-)construction of knowledge in multi-sited participatory ethnography 223
11. Making and selling Greek food in London: Migrant hospitality professionals talk about food authenticity over dinner 257
12. Feierabendziegel: Roof tiles with celestial bodies on them, and how they are relevant for understanding experiences of contingency 287
13. Index of authors 329
14. Index of subjects 335
15. Index of languages, language families, areas, and peoples 339