The anthropology of intensity : language, culture, and environment / Paul Kockelman, Yale University.
"What is it that makes a person blush when about to speak in front of a crowd? What makes children immerse themselves in digging in dirt for hours? And how can an entire room suddenly feel restless and warm at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? The anthropology of intensity studies the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | New departures in anthropology.
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| Summary: | "What is it that makes a person blush when about to speak in front of a crowd? What makes children immerse themselves in digging in dirt for hours? And how can an entire room suddenly feel restless and warm at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? The anthropology of intensity studies the manner in which humans encounter the continuous and gradable features of phenomena in social life and attempt to evaluate or convert them into discrete dimensions. Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a Mayan village in the cloud forests of Guatemala, this book provides a natural history of intensity in exceedingly tense times, through a careful analysis of ethnographic and linguistic evidence. It uses intensity as a way to reframe the discipline of Anthropology in the age of the Anthropocene, and rethinks classic work in the formal linguistic tradition from a culture-specific and context-sensitive stance"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009024235 100902423X 1009011073 9781009011075 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009024235 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2022). |