[Linganth] Nakassis, Onscreen/Offscreen ~ Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life ~ UTP

[Jack Sidnell]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to let you know about a new book series published by the University of Toronto Press.

Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life focuses on cutting-edge developments in the analysis of linguistic and semiotic processes within a comparative, ethnographic, and socio-historical context. The series provides a home for innovative, boundary-pushing scholarship in linguistic anthropology, as well as work in sociolinguistics, the sociology of interaction, and semiotics. Including both ethnographic monographs and theoretical explorations, books in this series present new ways of understanding the centrality of language and other sign systems to social and cultural life.

Editorial board:
Asif Agha (Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania)
Nick Enfield (Linguistics, University of Sydney)
Erich Fox-Tree (Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University)
Kira Hall (Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Paul Kockelman (Anthropology, Yale University)
Michael Lambek (Anthropology, University of Toronto)
Shaylih Muehlmann (Anthropology, University of British Columbia)
Salikoko Mufwene  (Linguistics, University of Chicago)
Constantine Nakassis (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Angela Reyes (English, Hunter College, City University of New York)

Further information is available here:
https://utorontopress.com/search-results/?series=studies-in-the-anthropology-of-language-sign-and-social-life

The first book in the series, by Constantine Nakassis and titled Onscreen/Offscreen, has now been published and is available, open access, here:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv33b9wv2

Paper copies can be ordered here:
https://utorontopress.com/9781487541774/onscreenoffscreen/
https://www.amazon.com/Onscreen-Offscreen-Studies-Anthropology-Language/dp/1487541775

"By using the tools of semiotic anthropology to examine Tamil cinema, Onscreen/Offscreen models an incredibly innovativemethodology for understanding the cinematic image more broadly and in radically processual terms. Nakassis pursues the question of how images happen and for whom they happen across events, and in doing so he reaches brilliant insights into the gender politics of cinema and the potentials of realism when the power of the image always exceeds what has been recorded and what is projected onto the screen."
Francis Cody, Associate Professor of Anthropology and in the Asian Institute, University of Toronto

"Applying the analytic strategies and methods of linguistic anthropology to film, Constantine Nakassis presents a comprehensive look at cinema as un fait social total. Far more than a deep dive into Tamil film history, Onscreen/Offscreen is a major contribution to cinema studies and the anthropology of images."
Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of New Mexico

All best wishes,
Jack Sidnell
Anthropology, U. Toronto




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