An Anthropology of Indirect Communication

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ISBN: 9780415247443 | 0415247446
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/25/2001

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From patent miscommunication, through potent ambiguity to pregnant silence this incisive collection examines from a rare anthropological perspective the many aspects of indirect communication. From a mormon theme park to carnival time on Montserrat the contributors analyze indirection by illustrating how food, silence, sunglasses, martial arts and rudeness constitute powerful ways of conveying meaning.

Notes on contributors

viii

Acknowledgements

xii

Introduction

(16)

Joy Hendry

C. W. Watson

PART I Intercultural communication and the anthropologist

(66)

Communicational distortion and the constitution of society: indirection as a form of life

(15)

Nigel Rapport

On the ontological status of honour

(17)

Roger Just

Not talking about sex in India: indirection and the communication of bodily intention

(17)

Helen Lambert

Talk, silence and the material world: patterns of indirect communication among agricultural families in northern England

(15)

Pia Christensen

Jenny Hockey

Allison James

PART II Indirection beyond language

(60)

Eating your words: communicating with food in the Ecuadorian Andes

(16)

Nicole Bourque

Sunglasses, suitcases and other symbols: intentionality, creativity and indirect communication in festive and everyday performances

101

(14)

Sarah Pink

Trust, privacy, deceit and the quality of interpersonal relationships: `peasant' society revisited

115

(13)

Ursula Sharma

The temple and the theme park: intention and indirection in religious tourist art

128

(15)

Terry D. Webb

PART III Bodily possibilities

143

(36)

Dance, dissimulation and identity in Indonesia

145

(18)

Felicia Hughes--Freeland

Don't talk -- blend: ideas about body and communication in aikido practise

163

(16)

Tamara Kohn

PART IV Intricacies of language explained

179

(74)

Licence revoked: when calypso goes too far

181

(20)

Jonathan Skinner

Indirect speech: heteroglossia, politeness and rudeness in Irula forest festivals

201

(17)

Neil Thin

Straight talk, hidden talk and modernity: shifts in discourse strategy in Highland New Guinea

218

(14)

Lisette Josephides

Unwrapping rudeness: inverted etiquetee in an egalitarian enclave

232

(21)

Peter Parkes

PART V English -- with diplomacy

253

(48)

Ambiguity and verbal disguise within diplomatic culture

255

(16)

Annabel Black

Delay and deception in Thai--British diplomatic encounters of the early nineteenth century

271

(19)

Andrew Turton

Diplomacy and indirection, constraint and authority

290

(11)

James G. Carrier

Index

301

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