Brigittine M. French

Gebundenes Buch

Narratives of Conflict, Belonging, and the State

Discourse and Social Life in Post-War Ireland

Beschreibung

Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of law, equality and democratic representation in locally-meaningful ways to make their own national history in ways that may perpetuate violence and inequality.

Autor

Brigittine M. French is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Peace & Conflict Studies Program at Grinnell College. French is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on testimony, violence, and rights in post-conflict nations. She is the author of Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala (2010). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, American Anthropologist, Language in Society, and the Annual Review of Anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781138744325
• ISBN-10: 1138744328
• Artikelnr.: 52455989