Silence : : The Currency Of Power / / ed. by Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Achino-Loeb, Maria-Luisa,; Barber, Pauline Gardiner,; Beeman, William O.,; Cook, Susan E.,; Fernandez, James W.,; Kingsolver, Ann E.,; Sheriff, Robin E.,; Sider, Gerald,
• HerausgeberIn: Achino-Loeb, Maria-Luisa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)

This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works—how it is implicated in the construction of meaning—can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins or what we perceive and through a sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects and texts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: SILENCE AS THE CURRENCY OF POWER -- PART I SILENCE, CONTEXT, AND CATEGORIES OF IDENTITY -- CHAPTER 1 SILENCE IN MUSIC -- CHAPTER 2 SILENCE AND THE IMPERATIVES OF IDENTITY -- CHAPTER 3 LANGUAGE POLICIES AND THE ERASURE OF MULTILINGUALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA -- PART II SILENCE AND POWER IN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER 4 STRATEGIC ALTERITY AND SILENCE IN THE PROMOTION OF CALIFORNIA’S PROPOSITION 187 AND OF THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG IN SOUTH CAROLINA -- CHAPTER 5 NO/MA(I)DS: SILENCED SUBJECTS IN PHILIPPINE MIGRATION -- CHAPTER 6 THE MUZZLED SAINT: RACISM, CULTURAL CENSORSHIP, AND RELIGION IN URBAN BRAZIL -- PART III SILENCE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE OBSERVER -- CHAPTER 7 BETWEEN SILENCES AND CULTURE: A PARTISAN ANTHROPOLOGY -- CHAPTER 8 SILENCES OF THE FIELD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX