Creating Context in Andean Cultures: 6 (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195109147 ISBN 13: 9780195109146

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--dance, rituals, pottery, the social use of space, et al--cannot help but fundamentally alter the meaning of the living words and deeds of the culture in question. Consequently, recent researchers have developed more dialogic methods for collecting, interpreting, and presenting data. These new techniques have yielded much success for anthropologists working in Latin America, especially in their efforts to understand how economically, politically, and socially subordinated groups use culture and language to resist the dominant national culture and to assert a distinct historical identity. This collection addresses these issues of "texts" and textuality as it explores various Latin American languages and cultures.

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Review

Brings into view many far-from-obvious ways in which American peoples have put their societies into logically interesting order before their own eyes through coherent arrays of symbols. It also offers a fascinating tour of the boundary lands between specialized anthropological linguistics and the ethnography of expressive culture. (Anthropological Linguistics)

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195109147
• ISBN 13: 9780195109146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Howard-Malverde Rosaleen