Andean Aymara

MPI (with DOBES funding) has a call for papers from Master’s students for a workshop from 30 May to 4 June 2010:

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics will award five student bursaries for participation in the workshop Hunter-gatherers and semantic categories and we hereby invite talented young Master’s students to submit applications. Preference will be given to Master’s students in linguistics or anthropology enrolled at a German university …

The workshop addresses the following questions: In what way does a way of life influence categorisation strategies in language and cognition? Are natural ecology and subsistence economy of speech communities significant determinants of categorisation? Is there a shared ‘hunter-gatherer mode of categorisation’, common to all hunter-gatherer communities? Do hunter-gatherer practices of categorisation differ from that of other groups? Finally, is ‘hunter-gatherer’ a grouping which is relevant to linguistic and cognitive science? We shall also investigate how theoretical questions like these can enhance and develop the documentation of endangered languages and cultures further.

Read more about it and find relevant links here. (Thanks, Aline)