TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dilley,R.M.
AU  - Dilley,Roy
AU  - Fabian,Johannes
AU  - Harvey,Penelope
AU  - Hervey,Sándor G.J.
AU  - Hobart,Mark
AU  - Holy,Ladislav
AU  - Morris,Brian
AU  - Prince,Ruth
AU  - Rapport,Nigel
AU  - Riches,David
AU  - Tabakowska,Elżbieta
TI  - The Problem of Context: Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere 
T2  - Methodology & History in Anthropology
SN  - 9781789203905
AV  - GN345 .P75 1999 
U1  - 306/.01 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Context (Linguistics)
KW  - Context (Linquistics)
KW  - Cultural relativism
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF CONTEXT --; Chapter 1 CONTEXTUALISATION AND PARADIGM SHIFTS --; Chapter 2 CONTEXT, THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE --; Chapter 3 NEW PARADIGM THINKING IN LINGUISTICS: MEANING IS THE CONTEXT --; Chapter 4 ETHNOGRAPHIC MISUNDERSTANDING AND THE PERILS OF CONTEXT --; Chapter 5 AS THEY LIKE IT: OVERINTERPRETATION AND HYPOREALITY IN BALI --; Chapter 6 CONTEXT AND INTERPRETATION: REFLECTIONS ON NYAU RITUALS IN MALAWI --; Chapter 7 THE HOLISTIC INDIVIDUAL: CONTEXT AS POLITICAL PROCESS IN THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT --; Chapter 8 CONTEXT AS AN ACT OF PERSONAL EXTERNALISATION: GREGORY BATESON AND THE HARVEY FAMILY IN THE ENGLISH VILLAGE OF WANET --; Chapter 9 CULTURE AND CONTEXT: THE EFFECTS OF VISIBILITY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent ways. How do these ways differ? And what analytical strategies are adopted in order to suggest that the relevant context is "self-evident"? The notion of context has received less attention than is due such a central, key concept in social anthropology, as well as in other related disciplines. This collection of contributions from a group of leading social anthropologists and anthropological linguists addresses the question of how the idea of context is constructed, invoked, and deployed in the interpretations put forward by social anthropologists. The ethnographic focus embraces peoples from regions such as Bali, Europe, Malawi, and Zaire. Primarily theoretical in its aims, the work also draws on expertise from anthropological linguistics and philosophy in order to set the issue as much in a comparative disciplinary perspective as in a comparative cross-cultural one
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ER  -