By Mordechai Taji - A Washington Post article last week resurfaced the issue that Argentina s national football team featured no black players, as opposed to Germany, Spain, France, and other European squads.
People tend to think about age differences, like gender and racial differences, as biologically driven. Through a series of captivating stories about life in the Marshall Islands, Elise Berman shows that in many ways children are not born different, but learn to be different. Each story in the book examines a central mystery: Who gets to adopt the baby? Will Roka keep his lollipop? Who is telling the truth? Through these dramas, large and small, Berman immerses readers of “Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands” into everyday life in a small village on an atoll in the Pacific Ocean. As the mysteries unfold, Berman also shows how age differences emerge through the decisions people make, the emotions they feel, the things that they say, and the power they gain. Berman shows how children learn to talk like children, as people who are different from adults.
Berman will discuss her research at the Personally Speaking talk at 7 p.m. on Tuesda