{"product_id":"silence-the-currency-of-power-9781845451301","title":"Silence: The Currency Of Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThis book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works—how it is implicated in the construction of meaning—can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins or what we perceive and through a sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects and texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“The overall message and demonstration that silences are heterogeneous and essential formations within cultural meaning is an important contribution to scholarship on power.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  American Ethnologist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eSilence, says [the author], allows us to belief that the un-said is non-existent: hence the close relationship between silence and language and between silence and ideology. This research promises a radical renewal in the study and in the very way we think about the connection between silence and language\u003c\/em\u003e.”  \u003cb\u003e·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItalian Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Silence as the Currency of Power\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMaria-Luisa Achino-Loeb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: SILENCE, CONTEXT, AND CATEGORIES OF IDENTITY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eSilence in Music\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eWilliam O. Beeman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Silence and the Imperatives of Identity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMaria-Luisa Achino-Loeb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Language Policies and the Erasure of Multilingualism in South Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSusan E. Cook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: SILENCE AND POWER IN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Strategic Alterity and Silence in the Promotion of California’s Proposition 187 and of the Confederate Battle Flag in South Carolina\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAnn E. Kingsolver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e No\/ma(i)ds: Silenced Subjects in Philippine Migration\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePauline Gardiner Barber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e The Muzzled Saint: Racism, Cultural Censorship, and Religion in Urban Brazil\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRobin E. Sheriff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: SILENCE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE OBSERVER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Between Silences and Culture: A Partisan Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGerald Sider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Silences of the Field\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJames W. Fernandez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tContributors\u003cbr\u003e \tAuthor Index\u003cbr\u003e \tSubject Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042965750103,"sku":"9781845451301","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845451301.jpg?v=1750956435","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/silence-the-currency-of-power-9781845451301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}