Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
1990/10/01 by Richard Bauman, Charles L. Briggs · 2,613 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Epistemology #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Linguistics #Multilingual Education and Policy #Philosophy #Poetics #Poetry #Power (physics) #Social science #Sociology #Space (punctuation) #TRACE (psycholinguistics)
paper · doi:10.1146/annurev.an.19.100190.000423
published in Annual Review of Anthropology 19(1), 59-88 (Annual Reviews)
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Abstract
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
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