ENCOUNTERS
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Names: Parkin, David J. author.
Title: The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making/David Parkin.
Description: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Multilingual Matters, 2021. | Series: Encounters: 19 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the authors thinking Provided by publisher.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Below are the dates and details of publications included as chapters in the volume. Acknowledgement is here made of permission to reproduce these publications granted by the publishers as indicated. I especially thank Ben Rampton, Jan Blommaert, Max Spotti, Karel Arnaut, Steve Vertovec, Sirpa Leppnen, Roxy Harris and Charles Briggs and other members of the International Consortium on Language Superdiversity (InCoLaS) for their stimulation and the encouragement that enabled me to bring together this collection. I am grateful to many people who have contributed to the mission of increasing the scope and awareness of linguistic anthropology in the United Kingdom and European mainland: David Shankland, Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute, welcomed the possibility of putting on a series of seminars on anthropology and language at the RAI in 20132014; thereafter, Alex Pillen collaborated tirelessly in setting up the RAI Anthropology and Language Committee; and Elisabeth Hsu, David Zeitlyn and Ramon Sarro helped initiate similar seminars at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), then headed by David Gellner at the University of Oxford. Finally, I thank colleagues at SAME and All Souls College for fruitful discussion and generous help in preparing this work, and Anna Roderick for steering it through the publication process.
List and Dates of Publications Included in the Volume
Part 1: Chapters 16
2016 Multilingual classification to translingual ontology: a turning point. In K. Arnaut, J. Blommaert, B. Rampton and M. Spotti (eds) Language and Superdiversity (pp. 7188). New York and Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
1977 Stabilized and emergent multilingualism. In H. Giles (ed.) Language, Ethnicity and Inter-group Relations (pp. 186210). London and New York: Academic Press.
1971 Language choice in two Kampala housing estates. Chapter 20. In W.H. Whiteley (ed.) Language Use and Social Change (pp. 347363). London: University of Oxford Press for International African Institute.
1974b Language switching in Nairobi. Chapter 8. In W.H. Whiteley (ed.) Language in Kenya (pp. 167188). Nairobi: Oxford University Press.
1980 The creativity of abuse (Curl lecture l979). Man 15: 4564.
1976 Exchanging words. In B. Kapferer (ed.) Exchange and Meaning (pp. 163190). Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Affairs.
Part 2: Chapters 711
1984 Political language. Annual Review of Anthropology 13, 34565.
1994 Language, government and the play on purity and impurity: Arabic, Swahili and the vernaculars in Kenya. In R. Fardon and G. Furniss (eds) African Languages, Development and the State (pp. 227245). London: Routledge.
1985a Being and selfhood among intermediary Swahili. In J. Maw and D. Parkin (eds) Swahili Language and Society (pp. 247260). Beitrge zur Afrikanistik. Band 23. Vienna. Institut fr Afrikanistik der Universitt.
1985b Controlling the U-turn of knowledge. In R. Fardon (ed.) Power and Knowledge
