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Natural Histories of Discourse

Editat de Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 aug 1996
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, they give an idea of the cultural processes of "entextualization" and "contextualization" of discourse that they so richly illustrate. The contributors' varied backgrounds include anthropology, psychiatry, education, literary criticism, and law, making this collection invaluable not only to anthropologists and linguists, but to all analysts of culture.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226757704
ISBN-10: 0226757706
Pagini: 362
Ilustrații: 8 line drawings, 9 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
The Natural History of Discourse
Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban.
1: Entextualization, Replication, and Power
Greg Urban
2: Text from Talk in Tzotzil
John B. Haviland
3: The Secret Life of Texts
Michael Silverstein
4: "Self"-Centering Narratives
Vincent Crapanzano
5: Shadow Conversations: The Indeterminacy of Participant Roles
Judith T. Irvine
6: Exorcism and the Description of Participant Roles
William F. Hanks
7: Socialization to Text: Structure and Contradiction in Schooled
Literacy
James Collins
8: Recontextualization as Socialization: Text and Pragmatics in the Law
School Classroom
Elizabeth Mertz
9: The Construction of an LD Student: A Case Study in the Politics of
Representation
Hugh Mehan
10: National Spirit or the Breath of Nature? The Expropriation of Folk
Positivism in the Discourse of Greek Nationalism
Michael Herzfeld
11: Transformations of the Word in the Production of Mexican Festival
Drama
Richard Bauman
Codafication [sic]
Greg Urban, Michael Silverstein.
List of Contributors
Index