| Description |
1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Culture, mind, and society |
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Culture, mind, and society.
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| Contents |
How to reconstruct schemas people share, from what they say / Naomi Quinn -- Some methods for studying cultural and cognitive structures / Roy D'Andrade -- Uncovering cultural models of gender from accounts of folktales / Holly Mathews -- Finding culture in narrative / Jane H. Hill -- Analyzing discourse for cultural complexity / Claudia Strauss -- "Good enough" methods for life story analysis / Wendy Luttrell |
| Summary |
This edited collection presents a range of heretofore unpublished, unavailable methods for the systematic reconstruction of culture from interviews and other discourse. Authors set the design and evolution of their methods in the context of their own research projects, and draw general lessons about investigating culture through discourse. These methods have largely grown out of the work of the cultural models school, and represent the approaches of some of the very best methodologists in cultural anthropology today. An impetus for the volume has been inquiries from researchers, many of them graduate students, about how to conduct the kind of research that cultural models theorists do. This is not a linguistics book; unlike approaches to discourse analysis from linguistics, this volume focuses on culture, treating discourse as a medium especially rich in clues for cultural analysis, and hence a window into culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis, Narrative -- Research -- Methodology.
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Language and culture.
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Methodology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Quinn, Naomi.
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| ISBN |
9781137058713 (electronic bk.) |
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1137058714 (electronic bk.) |
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