Words in motion : toward a global lexicon / edited by Carol Gluck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
"On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, fr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2009.
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| Summary: | "On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity." --Book Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 346 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822345190 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822345196 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822345367 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822345366 (pbk. : alk. paper) |