Silence : the currency of power /
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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford, [England] :
Berghahn Books
2006.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1c0gktb |
Table of Contents:
- 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