Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford

Home -> Title




Contents

Notes on Contributors
Preface

Introduction: The Problem of Context
Roy Dilley

Chapter 1. Contextualisation and Paradigm Shifts
Ladislav Holy

Chapter 2. Context, the Ghost in the Machine
Sándor G.J. Hervey

Chapter 3. New Paradigm Thinking in Linguistics: Meaning is the Context
Elzbieta Tabakowska

Chapter 4. Ethnographic Misunderstanding and the Perils of Context
Johannes Fabian

Chapter 5. As They Like It: Overinterpretation and Hyporeality in Bali
Mark Hobart

Chapter 6. Context and Interpretation: Reflections on Nyau Rituals in Malawi
Brian Morris

Chapter 7. The Holistic Individual: Context as Political Process in the New Age Movement
Ruth Prince and David Riches

Chapter 8. Context as an Act of Personal Externalisation: Gregory Bateson and the Harvey Family in the English Village of Wanet
Nigel Rapport

Chapter 9. Culture and Context: The Effects of Visibility
Penelope Harvey

Index

The Problem of Context

Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere

Edited by R.M. Dilley

256 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-57181-700-6 Hb Published (October 1999)

ISBN  978-1-57181-773-0 Pb Published (October 1999)

eISBN 978-1-78920-390-5
web ISBN 978-1-78920-390-5