This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It
argues that only by studying how silence works-how it is implicated
in the construction of meaning-can we arrive at the elusive roots
of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of
power by delineating the margins or what we perceive and through a
sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the service of
self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid of human
agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried by vivid
ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic behavior,
racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the construction of
anthropological subjects and texts.
Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb, PhD, teaches at New York University's
Gallatin School of Individualized Studies where she continues to
develop courses on silence. She has done research with Waldensians
and other minorities within religious groups. Her work has been
published in journals such as American Anthropologist and Theory in
Psychology, among others. She currently co-chairs the Advisory
Council of the Anthropology Section, New York Academy of
Sciences.
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