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- catalog abstract ""Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indonesian island of Sumba. Weaving together sharply observed narrative, close analysis of poetic speech and valuable objects, and far-reaching theoretical discussion, Signs of Recognition explores the risks endemic in representational practices. An awareness of risk is embedded in the very forms of ritual speech and exchange. The possibilities for failure and slippage reveal people's mutual vulnerabilities and give words and things part of their power. Keane shows how the dilemmas posed by the effort to use and control language and objects are implicated with general problems of power, authority, and agency. He persuades us to look differently at ideas of voice and value. Integrating the analysis of words and things, this book contributes to a wide range of fields, including linguistic anthropology, cultural studies, social theory, and the studies of material culture, art, and political economy."--Book cover.".
- catalog alternative "Powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society".
- catalog contributor b9637162.
- catalog coverage "Sumba Island (Indonesia) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indonesian island of Sumba. Weaving together sharply observed narrative, close analysis of poetic speech and valuable objects, and far-reaching theoretical discussion, Signs of Recognition explores the risks endemic in representational practices. An awareness of risk is embedded in the very forms of ritual speech and exchange. The possibilities for failure and slippage reveal people's mutual vulnerabilities and give words and things part of their power. Keane shows how the dilemmas posed by the effort to use and control language and objects are implicated with general problems of power, authority, and agency. He persuades us to look differently at ideas of voice and value. Integrating the analysis of words and things, this book contributes to a wide range of fields, including linguistic anthropology, cultural studies, social theory, and the studies of material culture, art, and political economy."--Book cover.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: Representation, Recognition, and Hazard -- 2. Geography, History, and Sociality -- 3. Things of Value -- 4. Loaded Terms -- 5. Text, Context, and Displacement -- 6. Voices, Agents, and Interlocutors -- 7. Formality and the Economy of Signs -- 8. Subjects and the Vicissitudes of Objects -- 9. Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxix, 297 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520204743 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520204751 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Indonesia Sumba Island.".
- catalog spatial "Sumba Island (Indonesia) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "306/.09598/6 20".
- catalog subject "Anakalang (Indonesian people) Psychology.".
- catalog subject "Anakalang (Indonesian people) Rites and ceremonies.".
- catalog subject "Anakalang (Indonesian people) Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Anakalang dialect Discourse analysis.".
- catalog subject "Anakalang dialect Semantics.".
- catalog subject "DS632.A52 K43 1997".
- catalog subject "Interpersonal relations Indonesia Sumba Island.".
- catalog subject "Representation (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "Social structure Indonesia Sumba Island.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: Representation, Recognition, and Hazard -- 2. Geography, History, and Sociality -- 3. Things of Value -- 4. Loaded Terms -- 5. Text, Context, and Displacement -- 6. Voices, Agents, and Interlocutors -- 7. Formality and the Economy of Signs -- 8. Subjects and the Vicissitudes of Objects -- 9. Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society".
- catalog title "Signs of recognition : powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society / Webb Keane.".
- catalog type "text".