Natural Histories of Discourse

Name: Natural Histories of Discourse
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ISBN: 9780226757704

ISBN-10: 0226757706

ISBN-13: 9780226757704

Edition: 1996

Authors: Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban

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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…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments The Natural History of Discourse




Entextualization, Replication, and Power




Text from Talk in Tzotzil




The Secret Life of Texts




"Self"-Centering Narratives




Shadow Conversations




Exorcism and the Description of Participant Roles




Socialization to Text: Structure and Contradiction in Schooled Literacy




Recontextualization as Socialization: Text and Pragmatics in the Law School Classroom




The Construction of an LD Student: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation




National Spirit or the Breath of Nature? The Expropriation of Folk Positivism in the Discourse of Greek Nationalism




Transformations of the Word in the Production of Mexican Festival Drama



List of Contributors


Index