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Timucua Hand Use: Dispelling the Myth of Left-Hand Preference

Author(s) -

George Aaron Broadwell

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

new florida journal of anthropology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2691-2260

pISSN - 2691-2252

DOI - 10.32473/nfja.v1i2.123622

Subject(s) - preference , hand preference , argument (complex analysis) , mythology , left and right , property (philosophy) , aesthetics , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , medicine , laterality , economics , theology , developmental psychology , engineering , microeconomics , structural engineering

At the time of Spanish contact, the Timucua were the original people of northern central Florida. Granberry (1996) claimed in a provocative article that Timucua constitutes an exception to the universal or near-universal property of preference for the right hand, and showed a preference for the left hand instead. This article critically examines Granberry's argument, and shows that there is no good linguistic evidence to support left-hand preference in Timucua

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