The transformative materiality of meaning-making / David Parkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parkin, David J., 1940- author.

Series:

Encounters (Bristol, England) ;vv. 19.

Encounters ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture--Africa, East.

Language and culture.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2021]

Summary:

This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author's thinking.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: Communication as Transaction and Becoming

Chapter 1: From Multilingual Classification to Translingual Ontology: A Turning Point

Chapter 2: Emergent and Stabilised Multilingualism: Polyethnic Peer Groups in Urban Kenya

Chapter 3: Language Choice in Two Kampala Housing Estates

Chapter 4: Language Switching in Nairobi

Chapter 5: The Creativity of Abuse

Chapter 6: Exchanging Words

Part 2: Political and Formulaic Communication

Chapter 7: Political Language

Chapter 8: Language, Government and the Play on Purity and Impurity: Arabic, Swahili and the Vernaculars in Kenya

Chapter 9: Being and Selfhood among Intermediary Swahili

Chapter 10: Controlling the U-turn of Knowledge

Chapter 11: The Politics of Naming among the Giriama

Part 3: The Materiality of Language and Communication

Chapter 12: Unpacking Anthropology

Chapter 13: Revisiting: Keywords, Transforming Phrases, and Cultural Concepts

Chapter 14: Loud Ethics and Quiet Morality among Muslim Healers in Eastern Africa

Chapter 15: Reason, Emotion, and the Embodiment of Power

Chapter 16: The Power of Incompleteness: Innuendo in Swahili Women's Dress

Chapter 17: Simultaneity and Sequencing in the Oracular Speech of Kenyan Diviners

References: Introduction and Parts 1-3 Commentaries

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781800411494

1800411499

9781800411487

1800411480

OCLC:

1263028908