{"product_id":"natural-histories-of-discourse-michael-silverstein-9780226757704","title":"Natural Histories of Discourse","description":"Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals \"culture\" to those who can interpret it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eleven original essays of \"natural history\" range in focus from nuptial poetry of insult among Wolof griots to case-based teaching methods in first-year law-school classrooms. Stage by stage, they give an idea of the cultural processes of \"entextualization\" and \"contextualization\" of discourse that they so richly illustrate. The contributors' varied backgrounds include anthropology, psychiatry, education, literary criticism, and law, making this collection invaluable not only to anthropologists and linguists, but to all analysts of culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Silverstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226757706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226757704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.05h x 6.07w x 0.78d","brand":"Michael Silverstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46866985222399,"sku":"9780226757704","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e199783-300d-4833-bc74-eeef7f858355.jpg?v=1747453615","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/natural-histories-of-discourse-michael-silverstein-9780226757704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}