Research Catalog

Title

An anthropology of indirect communication / edited by Joy Hendry and C.W. Watson.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hendry, Joy.
• Watson, C. W.
• Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference (1998 : Canterbury, England)

Description

xi, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"From patent miscommunication through potent ambiguity to pregnant silence, this collection examines from a rare anthropological perspective the many aspects of indirect communication. From a Mormon theme park to carnival time on Montserrat, the contributors analyze indirection by illustrating how food, silence, sunglasses, martial arts, and rudeness constitute powerful ways of conveying meaning."--Jacket.

Series Statement

A.S.A. monographs ; 37

Uniform Title

A.S.A. monographs ; 37.

Subject

• Nonverbal communication > Congresses
• Communication and culture > Congresses
• 05.12 communication processes
• 73.64 language and communication (ethnology)
• Communication and culture
• Nonverbal communication
• Kulturkontakt
• Sprache
• Kommunikation
• Nichtverbale Kommunikation
• Non-verbale communicatie
• Interculturele communicatie
• Canterbury <1998>

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congresses (form)
• Congresses.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers presented at the ASA Conference held 1998, Canterbury, Eng.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Communicational distortion and the constitution of society : indirection as a form of life / Nigel Rapport -- On the ontological status of honour / Roger Just -- Not talking about sex in India : indirection and the communication of bodily intention / Helen Lambert -- Talk, silence, and the material world : patterns of indirect communication among agricultural families in northern England / Pia Chistensen, Jenny Hockey and Allison James -- Eating your words : communicating with food in the Ecuadorian Andes / Nicole Bourque -- Sunglasses, suitcases and other symbols : intentionality, creativity and indirect communication in festive and everyday performances / Sarah Pink -- Trust, privacy, deceit and the quality of interpersonal relationships : 'peasant' society revisited / Ursula Sharma -- The temple and the theme park : intention and indirection in religious tourist art / Terry D. Webb -- Dance, dissimulation and identity in Indonesia / Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Don't talk -- blend : ideas about body and communication in aikido practise / Tamara Kohn -- License revoked : when calypso goes too far / Jonathan Skinner -- Indirect speech : heteroglossia, politeness and rudeness in Irula forest festivals / Neil Thin -- Straight talk, hidden talk and modernity : shifts in discourse strategy in Highland New Guinea / Lisette Josephides -- Unwrapping rudeness : inverted etiquette in an egalitarian enclave / Peter Parkes -- Ambiguity and verbal disguise within diplomatic culture / Annabel Black -- Delay and deception in Thai-British diplomatic encounters of the early 19th century / Andrew Turton -- Diplomacy and indirection, constraint and authority / James G. Carrier.

ISBN

• 0415247446
• 9780415247443
• 0415247454
• 9780415247450
• 9780203428573
• 0203428579

LCCN

00051705

OCLC

• ocm45172844
• 45172844
• SCSB-1225597

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library