{"product_id":"the-anticolonial-linguistics-of-nikolai-matthew-carson-allen-9781032498485","title":"The Anticolonial Linguistics of Nikolai Marr: A Critical Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr (1865-1934) has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal figure of late-tsarist and early Soviet cultural politics and as an early anticolonial theorist. He remains, however, an elusive thinker who is much written about but seldom read. This volume offers a representative selection of Marr's writing from several stages of his life translated here for the first time into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection of texts allows the reader to trace the key evolving and interconnected preoccupations that animate Marr's vast oeuvre: his anti-nationalist valorization of the cultural and linguistic hybridity of the Caucasus, his denunciation of the imperialist complicity of Western European comparative linguistics, his anti-Darwinian emphasis on mixture and convergence in place of filial descent within the history of languages, and his unorthodox theories of linguistic origins in gesture rather than speech. Key Marrist terms such as 'Japhetidology', or the rejection of the prevalent theory of an Indo-European language family, are clarified. The volume contains original essays that contextualize Marr's work within the history of linguistics, showing the indebtedness and applicability of his ideas to traditions that are frequently held to be unrelated to one another: Russian proto-structuralism, French deconstruction, and Indian subaltern thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was originally published as a special issue of \u003ci\u003eInterventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Carson Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 103249848X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032498485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Matthew Carson Allen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46670568751359,"sku":"9781032498485","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4183edd6-ff28-4022-9f8d-546c1da24e09.jpg?v=1741316996","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-anticolonial-linguistics-of-nikolai-matthew-carson-allen-9781032498485","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}