Scale : discourse and dimensions of social life /

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"Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies to history to love. We know scale by many names, and through many familiar antinomies: 'local' and 'global, ' 'micro' and 'macro, ' 'events' and the 'longue du...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Carr, E. Summerson, 1969- (Editor), Lempert, Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Luminos (University of California Press)
Subjects:
Scaling (Social sciences)
Construction d'une échelle (Sciences sociales)
Anthropology.
Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects.
Research and information: general.
Research methods: general.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
scalar processes.
scale-making.
scale.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Projecting presence : aura and oratory in William Jennings Bryan's presidential races / Richard Bauman
  • Interaction rescaled : how Buddhist debate became a diasporic pedagogy / Michael Lempert
  • Shrinking Indigenous language in the Yukon / Barbra Meek
  • Scale-making : comparison and perspective as ideological projects / Susan Gal
  • Balancing the scales of justice in Tonga / Susan U. Philips
  • Interscaling awe, deescalating disaster / E. Summerson Carr and Brooke Fisher
  • Scaling red and the horror of trademark / Constantine V. Nakassis
  • Semiotic vinification and the scaling of taste / Michael Silverstein
  • Going upscale : scales and scale-climbing as ideological projects / Judith T. Irvine.

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