What does it mean to speak Sakha in the city? Words Like Birds, a linguistic ethnography of Sakha discourses and practices in urban far eastern Russia, examines

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This book is a reissue of the collectible Charley Harper classic, which pairshis beautiful paintings with poetic commentary.