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Silence : the currency of power /
This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works-how it is implicated in the construction of meaning-can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins or wha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Berghahn,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Silence as the Currency of Power / Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb
- Part 1. Silence, Context, and Categories of Identity. Chapter 1. Silence in Music / William O. Beeman
- Chapter 2. Silence and the Imperatives of Identity / Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb
- Chapter 3. Language Policies and the Erasure of Multilingualism in South Africa / Susan E. Cook
- Part 2. Silence and Power in Ethnographic Perspective. Chapter 4. Strategic Alterity and Silence in the Promotion of California's Proposition 187 and of the Confederate Battle Flag in South Carolina / Ann E. Kingsolver
- Chapter 5. No/ma(i)ds : Silenced Subjects in Philippine Migration / Pauline Gardiner Barber
- Chapter 6. The Muzzled Saint : Racism, Cultural Censorship, and Religion in Urban Brazil / Robin E. Sheriff
- Part 3. Silence and the Plight of the Observer. Chapter 7. Between Silences and Culture : A Partisan Anthropology / Gerald Sider
- Chapter 8. Silences of the Field / James W. Fernandez