The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making
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The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

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The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

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This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author's thinking. The volume makes the argument that language and other forms of communication involve semiotic transactions between interlocuters; that such communicative exchanges do more than convey information; and that they give identity to the recipients of such transactions who reciprocate by defining speakers. The density and situational totality of such semiotic exchange can moreover be regarded as a kind of materiality, both in terms of their impact on social interaction and in how interlocuters interact bodily as well as verbally among themselves.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontcover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Part 1: Communication as Transaction and Becoming
  8. 1 From Multilingual Classification to Translingual Ontology: A Turning Point
  9. 2 Emergent and Stabilised Multilingualism: Polyethnic Peer Groups in Urban Kenya
  10. 3 Language Choice in Two Kampala Housing Estates
  11. 4 Language Switching in Nairobi
  12. 5 The Creativity of Abuse
  13. 6 Exchanging Words
  14. Part 2: Political and Formulaic Communication
  15. 7 Political Language
  16. 8 Language, Government and the Play on Purity and Impurity: Arabic, Swahili and the Vernaculars in Kenya
  17. 9 Being and Selfhood among Intermediary Swahili
  18. 10 Controlling the U-turn of Knowledge
  19. 11 The Politics of Naming among the Giriama
  20. Part 3: The Materiality of Language and Communication
  21. 12 Unpacking Anthropology
  22. 13 Revisiting: Keywords, Transforming Phrases, and Cultural Concepts
  23. 14 Loud Ethics and Quiet Morality among Muslim Healers in Eastern Africa
  24. 15 Reason, Emotion, and the Embodiment of Power
  25. 16 The Power of Incompleteness: Innuendo in Swahili Women’s Dress
  26. 17 Simultaneity and Sequencing in the Oracular Speech of Kenyan Diviners
  27. References: Introduction and Parts 1–3 Commentaries