Voices of Modernity
Voices of Modernity

Author: Richard Bauman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-03

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780521008976

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Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This novel reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political and scientific revolutions possible. The connections between language ideologies, privileged linguistic codes, and political concepts and practices shape the diverse ways we perceive ourselves and others. Bauman and Briggs demonstrate that contemporary efforts to make schemes of social inequality based on race, gender, class and nationality seem compelling and legitimate, rely on deeply-rooted ideas about language and tradition. Showing how critics of modernity unwittingly reproduce these foundational fictions, they suggest new strategies for challenging the undemocratic influence of these voices of modernity.

Contributions to Canadian ethnology, 1975
Contributions to Canadian ethnology, 1975

Author: David Brez Carlisle

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1772821950

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This volume contains a collection of seven ethnological papers. Gordon M. Day discusses the problem of improperly documented museum specimens; David Damas describes the construction of a Netsilik sled; E. Y. Arima and E. C. Hunt describe the creation of modern Kwakiutl curio masks; Mary Lee Stearns writes about the relevance of life cycle rituals to understanding contemporary Haida culture; J. G. E. Smith talks about the western Woods Cree; while Beryl C. Gillespie discusses the Yellowknife Natives of the North West Territories; and E. S. Rogers offers a historical examination of the Algonkians of southern Ontario.

Ethnology
Ethnology

Author: Regna Darnell

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-12-14

Total Pages: 964

ISBN-13: 3110883104

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The works of Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) continue to provide inspiration to all interested in the study of human language. Since most of his published works are relatively inaccessible, and valuable unpublished material has been found, the preparation of a complete edition of all his published and unpublished works was long overdue. The wide range of Sapir's scholarship as well as the amount of work necessary to put the unpublished manuscripts into publishable form pose unique challenges for the editors. Many scholars from a variety of fields as well as American Indian language specialists are providing significant assistance in the making of this multi-volume series.