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Ethnographic Misunderstanding and the Perils of Context

1995; Wiley; Volume: 97; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/aa.1995.97.1.02a00080

1548-1433

Johannes Fabian,

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

American AnthropologistVolume 97, Issue 1 p. 41-50 Ethnographic Misunderstanding and the Perils of Context JOHANNES FABIAN, Corresponding Author JOHANNES FABIAN UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM2Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, O.Z. Achterburgwal 185,1012 DK Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this author JOHANNES FABIAN, Corresponding Author JOHANNES FABIAN UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM2Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, O.Z. Achterburgwal 185,1012 DK Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1995 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1995.97.1.02a00080Citations: 67AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL REFERENCES CITED Peter Auer, and Aldo Luzio eds., 1992 The Contextualization of Language. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Bal, Mieke 1991 Reading "Rembrandt": Beyond the Word-Image Opposition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bourdieu, Pierre 1977 Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cook, Guy 1990 Transcribing Infinity: Problems of Context Presentation. Journal of Pragmatics 14: 1– 24. Culler, Jonathan 1988 Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Alessandro Duranti, and Charles Goodwin eds., 1992 Rethinking Context Language as an Interactive Phenomenon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fabian, Johannes 1974 Genres in an Emerging Tradition: An Approach to Religious Communication. In Changing Perspectives in the Scientific Study of Religion. A. W. Eister ed., Pp. 249– 272. New York: Wiley Interscience. Fabian, Johannes 1977 Charisma: Theory and Practice. ASA Review of Books 3: 122– 134. Fabian, Johannes 1979a Rule and Process: Thoughts on Ethnography as Communication. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9: 1– 26. Fabian, Johannes 1979b Introduction to Beyond Charisma: Religious Movements as Discourse. Special Issue of Social Research 46(1): 4– 35. New York: Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Fabian, Johannes 1990 Power and Performance. Ethnographic Explorations through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Fabian, Johannes 1991 Time and the Work of Anthropology. Critical Essays 1971–1991. Chur and Philadelphia: Harwood Academic Publishers. Habermas, Jürgen 1988 On the Logic of the Social Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Humboldt, Wilhelm von 1963 Schriften zur Sprachphilosophie. Andreas Flitner and Klaus Giel, eds. Stuttgart: Corta. Humboldt, Wilhelm von 1988 [1836] On Language. The Diversity of Human Language-Structure and its Influence on the Mental Development of Mankind. Peter Heath, trans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hymes, Dell 1974 Foundations in Sociolinguistics. An Ethnographic Approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Jules-Rosette, Bennetta 1975 African Apostles. Ritual and Conversion in the Church of John Maranke. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Mishler, Elliott G. 1991 Representing Discourse: The Rhetoric of Transcription. Journal of Narrative and Life History 1: 255– 280. Tedlock, Dennis 1983 The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Citing Literature Volume97, Issue1March 1995Pages 41-50 ReferencesRelatedInformation