{"product_id":"natural-histories-of-discourse-9780226757704","title":"Natural Histories of Discourse","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Silverstein | Greg Urban\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals \"culture\" to those who can interpret it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEleven original essays of \"natural history\" range in focus from nuptial poetry of insult among Wolof griots to case-based teaching methods in first-year law-school classrooms. Stage by stage, they give an idea of the cultural processes of \"entextualization\" and \"contextualization\" of discourse that they so richly illustrate. The contributors' varied backgrounds include anthropology, psychiatry, education, literary criticism, and law, making this collection invaluable not only to anthropologists and linguists, but to all analysts of culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614785192087,"sku":"9780226757704","price":4798.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226757704.webp?v=1775096302","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/natural-histories-of-discourse-9780226757704","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}