| Description |
xii, 284 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction Language and politics in the Pacific / Fred R. Myers and Donald Lawrence Brenneis -- 1. Egalitarian polity: the production of contexts of understanding "Wrapped words": poetry and politics among the Wana of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia / Jane Monnig Atkinson -- Straight talk and sweet talk: political discourse in an occasionally egalitarian community / Donald Lawrence Brenneis -- Who speaks here?: formality and the politics of gender in Mendi, Highland Papua New Guinea / Rena Lederman -- Putting down roots: information in the language of Managalase exchange / William H. McKellin -- 2. Autonomy: language, objects, and the limits of control Words that are moving: the social meanings of Ilongot verbal art / Michelle Z. Rosaldo -- From words to objects to magic: "hard words" and the boundaries of social interaction / Annette B. Weiner -- Of symbolic anchors and Sago soup: the rhetoric of exchange among the Chambri of Papua New Guinea / Deborah Gewertz -- 3. Hierarchy: speech and the "taken-for-granted" polity Lāuga and Talanoaga: two speech genres ina Samoan political event / Alesssandro Duranti -- Three perspectives on role distance in conversations between Tongan nobles and their "people" / George E. Marcus |
| Analysis |
Malay Archipelago & Polynesia Languages - Anthropological perspectives |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Papers from a symposium held at the 1980 Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Galveston, Tex |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [267]-280 |
| Subject |
Psycholinguistics -- Oceania.
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| SUBJECT |
Oceania -- Languages http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093914 -- Political aspects.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005651
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Brenneis, Donald Lawrence, 1946-
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Myers, Fred R., 1948-
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Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Meetings (1979 : Galveston, Tex.)
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| LC no. |
83023845 |
| ISBN |
0814710514 |
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0814710522 (paperback) |
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