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9780226757704: Natural Histories of Discourse
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ISBN 10: 0226757706 ISBN 13: 9780226757704
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del 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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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226757706
ISBN 13 
9780226757704
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
362
Editor
Silverstein Michael, Urban Greg
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