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Alessandro Duranti, ed., Key terms in language and culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. v, 282.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Chantal Tetreault
Affiliation:
Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, chantal@mail.utexas.edu

Abstract

Key terms in language and culture (hereafter Key terms) is an ambitious collection of 75 short essays on concepts central to linguistic anthropology and related fields. This book began as an informational session at the American Anthropological Association meetings in 1998 and was first published as a special issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (vol. 9, no. 1–2, 1999). Alessandro Duranti, Key terms' chief editor and architect, is an experienced navigator in the varied terrain of language and culture research; he is also the author of Linguistic anthropology, a comprehensive textbook that covers the discipline's major theoretical and methodological contributions. In Key terms, Duranti appeals to the expertise of 74 other scholars working on questions central to language and culture research. The result is a powerful and eclectic volume that brings together core concepts from anthropology, linguistics, folklore, philosophy, sociology, and psychology, among other fields.

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REVIEWS
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

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