Silence : the currency of power /

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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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Achino-Loeb, Maria-Luisa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2006.
Temas:
Silence.
Power (Social sciences)
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Silence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: SILENCE AS THE CURRENCY OF POWER
  • PART I SILENCE, CONTEXT, AND CATEGORIES OF IDENTITY
  • CHAPTER 1 SILENCE IN MUSIC
  • CHAPTER 2 SILENCE AND THE IMPERATIVES OF IDENTITY
  • CHAPTER 3 LANGUAGE POLICIES AND THE ERASURE OF MULTILINGUALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA
  • PART II 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
  • CHAPTER 5 NO/MA(I)DS: SILENCED SUBJECTS IN PHILIPPINE MIGRATION
  • CHAPTER 6 THE MUZZLED SAINT: RACISM, CULTURAL CENSORSHIP, AND RELIGION IN URBAN BRAZIL
  • PART III SILENCE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE OBSERVER
  • CHAPTER 7 BETWEEN SILENCES AND CULTURE: A PARTISAN ANTHROPOLOGY
  • CHAPTER 8 SILENCES OF THE FIELD
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • AUTHOR INDEX
  • SUBJECT INDEX

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