The Anthropology of Intensity
Language, Culture, and Environment
Part of New Departures in Anthropology
- Author: Paul Kockelman, Yale University, Connecticut
- Date Published: May 2022
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316519721
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What counts as too close for comfort? How can an entire room suddenly feel restless at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? And who decides whether or not we are already in an age of unliveable extremes? The anthropology of intensity studies how humans encounter and communicate the continuous and gradable features of social and environmental phenomena in everyday interactions. Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a Mayan village in the cloud forests of Guatemala, this book provides a natural history of intensity in exceedingly tense times, through a careful analysis of ethnographic and linguistic evidence. It uses intensity as a way to reframe Anthropology in the age of the Anthropocene, and rethinks classic work in the formal linguistic tradition from a culture-specific and context-sensitive stance. It is essential reading not only for anthropologists and linguists, but also for ecologically oriented readers, critical theorists, and environmental scientists.
Read more- Revisits a classic psychological and philosophical topic from a linguistic and anthropological perspective, using ethnographic and historical materials
- Uses intensity as an analytic lens to reframe the discipline of Anthropology in the age of the Anthropocene
- Rethinks classic work in a formal linguistic tradition from a culture-specific and context-sensitive stance
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'… offers a thorough framework for understanding how speakers make sense of shifting degrees of change in a starkly mutable world.' Sean P. Smith, Language in Society
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- Date Published: May 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316519721
- length: 290 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.72kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Grounds:
1. Comparative grounds
2. Casual grounds
3. Grounding experience: Grounding the anthropocene
Part II. Tensors:
5. Intensifiers
6. The history of Mas
The comparative complex
8. More, also, only
Part III. Thresholds:
9. Temporality and replacement
10. Temporal thresholds
11. Modality and worlding
12. Modal thoughts
Conclusion: the ecological self.
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