Natural Histories of Discourse

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226757706
• ISBN13: 9780226757704
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"