The problem of context / edited by Roy Dilley
New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999. 1st Paperback Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #355003
ISBN: 1571817735
Physical description: 256 pages. Contents: Introduction: The problem of context / Roy Dilley -- Contextualisation and paradigm shifts / Ladislav Holy -- Context, the ghost in the machine / Sándor G.J. Hervey -- New paradigm thinking in linguistics: meaning is the context / El?bieta Tabakowska -- Ethnographic misunderstanding and the perils of context / Johannes Fabian -- As they like it: overinterpretation and hyporeality in Bali / Mark Hobart -- Context and interpretation: reflections on Nyau rituals in Malawi / Brian Morris -- holistic individual: context as political process in the New Age movement / Ruth Prince and David Riches -- Context as an act of personal externalisation: Gregory Bateson and the Harvey family in the English village of Wanet / Nigel Rapport -- Culture and context : the effects of visibility / Penelope Harvey. Subjects: Ethnology Methodology. Ethnology Philosophy. Context (Linquistics). Cultural relativism; Congresses.
Price: €30.00