Title: disappointed
Review: I browsed this book at a local bookstore: on page 94, the authors claim that 'navajo', 'hopi', 'apache' and 'inuit' each translate literally as 'people' in those languages. Both 'Navajo' and 'Apache' are other peoples' names for the people we call Navajo and Apache - not their own - not words in their own languages at all. 'Hopi' *is* a word in the language we call Hopi, but it means something along the lines of "well-behaved one", its use to refer to the Hopi people is an extension of that concept, and the generic Hopi word for 'people' is unrelated to it. 'Inuit' (the plural of 'inuk') *does* mean 'people' among the Inuit, but 1 out of 4 isn't a very good track record. The authors' main point - that many peoples call their group simply 'people' - isn't wrong, and it would have been easy enough to provide accurate examples, but the sloppiness they display here - well, I didn't buy the book...
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