Portraits of "The Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache

Basso, Keith H.; Dell Hymes (fwd.)

ISBN 10: 0521295939 / ISBN 13: 9780521295932

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1979

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Stiff illus. wraps. Mild binding lean, handling wear with a few light cover creases. xxi,120 pp. 1989 ptg. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Portraits of "The Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521295939
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521295932
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Native American

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Synopsis

'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache investigates a complex form of joking in which Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans and, by means of these characterizations, give audible voice and visible substance to their conceptions of this most pressing of social 'problems'. Keith Basso's essay, based on linguistic and ethnographic materials collected in Cibecue, a Western Apache community, provides interpretations of selected joking encounters to demonstrate how Apaches go about making sense of the behaviour of Anglo-Americans. This study draws on theory in symbolic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and the dramaturgical model of human communication developed by Erving Goffman. Although the assumptions and premises that shape these areas of inquiry are held by some to be quite disparate, this analysis shows them to be fully compatible and mutually complementary.