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The Anthropology of Intensity - Language, Culture, and Environment (Hardcover)
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The Anthropology of Intensity - Language, Culture, and Environment (Hardcover)
Series: New Departures in Anthropology
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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.
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