Silence

The Currency Of Power

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2005
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-131-8 (ISBN)

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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 what we perceive and through a sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects and texts.

Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb, PhD, teaches at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Studies where she continues to develop courses on silence. She has done research with Waldensians and other minorities within religious groups. Her work has been published in journals such as American Anthropologist and Theory in Psychology, among others. She currently co-chairs the Advisory Council of the Anthropology Section, New York Academy of Sciences.

Introduction: Silence as the Currency of Power

Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb

PART I: 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 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

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 III: 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

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2005
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	268 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-84545-131-7 / 1845451317
ISBN-13	978-1-84545-131-8 / 9781845451318
Zustand	Neuware