Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. 1. Ethnography as Counter-hegemony: Remarks on Epistemology and Method 1
6. 2. Obituary: Dell H. Hymes (1927–2009) 10
7. 3. Ethnography and Democracy: Hymes’ Political Theory of Language 15
8. 4. Ethnopoetics as Functional Reconstruction: Dell Hymes’ Narrative View of the World 26
9. 5. Grassroots Historiography and the Problem of Voice: Tshibumba’s Histoire du Zaïre 42
10. 6. Historical Bodies and Historical Space 62
11. 7. Semiotic and Spatial Scope: Toward a Materialist Semiotics 77
12. 8. Pierre Bourdieu and Language in Society 87
13. 9. Combining Surveys and Ethnographies in the Study of Rapid Social Change 99
14. 10. Data Sharing as Entextualization Practice 112
15. 11. Chronotopes, Scales and Complexity in the Study of Language in Society 130
16. 12. Marxism and Urban Culture 143
17. 13. On Scope and Depth in Linguistic Ethnography: A Commentary 149
18. References 156
19. Index 167