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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