Natural Histories of Discourse
Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals culture to those who can interpret it. Eleven original essays of natural history range in focus from nuptial poetry of insult among Wolof griots to case-based teaching methods in first-year law-school classrooms. Stage by stage, the…
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Weitere Autoren: Urban, Greg (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-226-75770-4
- EAN: 9780226757704
- Produktnummer: 1554933
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 362 S.
- Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.0 cm 590 g
- Auflage: 2nd ed.
- Gewicht: 590
- Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Über den Autor
Michael Silverstein is the Samuel N. Harper Professor in the Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology at the University of Chicago. Greg Urban is professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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