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Freedoms of Speech

Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power

Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, Fiona Wright

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This collection brings together leading anthropologists and fresh new voices in the discipline to consider freedoms of speech with a wide comparative lens.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487552978
ISBN:: 9781487552978
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: University of Toronto Press

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On Speaking Terms

Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship

Luke Fleming

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On Speaking Terms examines the sociolinguistic and non-verbal codes that enact interpersonal avoidance relationships in more than one hundred societies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487550912
ISBN:: 9781487550912
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: University of Toronto Press

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Onscreen/Offscreen

Constantine V. Nakassis

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Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487549060
ISBN:: 9781487549060
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Anthropology
Subject:: Social Anthropology
Publisher:: University of Toronto Press

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