ISBN:
0203428579
,
0415247454
,
0415247446
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xi, 308 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
A.S.A. monographs 37
Paralleltitel:
Print version Anthropology of Indirect Communication
DDC:
302.2
Schlagwort(e):
Communication and culture Congresses
;
Nonverbal communication Congresses
Kurzfassung:
Drawing on their experiences in the field from a Mormon Theme Park in Hawaii, through carnival time on Montserrat to the exclusive domain of the Market, contributors explore indirect communication from an anthropological perspective
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Intercultural communication and the anthropologist; Communicational distortion and the constitution of society: indirection as a form of life; On the ontological status of honour; Not talking about sex in India: indirection and the communication of bodily intention; Talk, silence and the material world: patterns of indirect communication among agricultural families in northern England; Indirection beyond language; Eating your words: communicating with food in the Ecuadorian Andes
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Sunglasses, suitcases and other symbols: intentionality, creativity and indirect communication in festive and everyday performancesTrust, privacy, deceit and the quality of interpersonal relationships: 'peasant' society revisited; The temple and the theme park: intention and indirection in religious tourist art; Bodily possibilities; Dance, dissimulation and identity in Indonesia; Don't talk blend: ideas about body and communication in aikido practise; Intricacies of language explained; Licence revoked: when calypso goes too far
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Indirect speech: heteroglossia, politeness and rudeness in Irula forest festivalsStraight talk, hidden talk and modernity: shifts in discourse strategy in Highland New Guinea; Unwrapping rudeness: inverted etiquette in an egalitarian enclave; English with diplomacy; Ambiguity and verbal disguise within diplomatic culture; Delay and deception in Thai British diplomatic encounters of the early nineteenth century; Diplomacy and indirection, constraint and authority; Index;
Anmerkung:
Includes papers presented at the ASA Conference held 1998, Canterbury, England
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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