LINGANTH Digest - 18 Oct 2013 to 19 Oct 2013 (#2013-116)

Sun Oct 20 16:28:41 UTC 2013

Dear Alejandro,

I'm currently writing about the language ideologies of free speech among
journalists in eastern India, but that work won't be out for a couple of
years. Though not strictly in linguistic anthropology. I would highly
suggest the following:

Schiller, N. (2013). Reckoning with press freedom: Community media,
liberalism, and the processual state in Caracas, Venezuela. *American
Ethnologist*, *40*(3), 540-554.

Coleman, G. (2012). *Coding freedom: the ethics and aesthetics of hacking*.
Princeton University Press.
-- plus her piece in Cultural Anthropology

Asad, T., Brown, W., Butler, J., & Mahmood, S. (2009). *Is critique
secular?: blasphemy, injury, and free speech*. Townsend Center. (available
for download at http://escholarship.org/uc/item/84q9c6ft)

Keane, W. (2009). Freedom and blasphemy: on Indonesian press bans and
Danish cartoons. *Public culture*, *21*(1), 47-76.

On censorship, William Mazzarella's recent book and edited collection on
censorship may be useful. You might also suggest Gayle Rubin's critique of
the anti-pornography movement, citation below, and Anne Allison's *Permitted
and Prohibited Desires*.

Rubin, G. 1993. “Misguided, Dangerous, and Wrong: An Analysis of
Antipornography Politics.” In *Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures*, 18–40.
For thinking about corollaries in the linguistic anthropology literature, I
have found it useful to think less about "free speech" and more about the
specific issues -- so about insult, property, state regimentations,
dangerous words, etc. You are welcome to have your student or colleague
contact me directly if they have a specific area of interest. I might have
a better citation for them.

best wishes,

Katherine Martineau
PhD Candidate
University of Michigan
kbmartin at umich.edu / kbmartineau at gmail.com

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:00 PM, LINGANTH automatic digest system <
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> There are 3 messages totaling 136 lines in this issue.
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> Topics of the day:
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>   1. Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
>   2. Silence
>   3. <No subject given>
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> Date:    Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:29:19 +0000
> From:    "Woolard, Kathryn" <kwoolard at UCSD.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
>
> I don't think anyone's mentioned the classic work:
>
> Keith Basso, 1970  "To give up on words: Silence in Western Apache
> culture."
>
> Anthologized more than once, I imagine, but I believe the original was in
> SW J. of Anthropology.
>
>
>
> Kit W.
>
>
>
>
> On 10/19/13 2:12 AM, "Smith, Andrea L" <smithal at LAFAYETTE.EDU> wrote:
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> >There is a great edited volume on silence that your student might enjoy:
> >
> >Perspectives on Silence, ed. by Deborah Tannen and Muriel Saville-Troike.
> >Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
> >
> >Best, Andrea Smith
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Alejandro Paz" <alejandro.paz at UTORONTO.CA>
> >To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 3:24:50 PM
> >Subject: Silence and Free Speech (separate requests)
> >
> >Dear Colleagues,
> >
> >I have two separate requests for references from a student and a
> >colleague, which you may perhaps be able to help me with.
> >
> >First is work on silence. I know articles by Sue Gal and Norma
> >Mendoza-Denton, as well as Richard Bauman's book on the Quakers.
> >Anything you recommend apart from that?
> >
> >The second is work on "free speech." Here, nothing came directly to mind
> >on that topic. Although related would be stuff on public oratory and
> >public spheres, especially in democratic polities, and then of course on
> >censorship (like Domenic Boyer's article). So any suggestions here on
> >"free speech" or on "censorship" appreciated.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Alejandro
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------
> >Alejandro Paz
> >Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> >University of Toronto Scarborough
> >Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics
> >University of Toronto
> >-----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >--
> >Andrea Smith, Ph.D.
> >Associate Professor
> >Department of Anthropology and Sociology
> >Lafayette College
> >Easton, PA 18042
>
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> Date:    Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:28:56 -0400
> From:    "Peterson, Leighton C." <lpeterson at MIAMIOH.EDU>
> Subject: Silence
>
> I hate to state the obvious on the topic of silence, but the classic is,
> of course, Basso, Keith H. 1970. To give up on words:  Silence in the
> Western Apache culture. Southwestern Journal of Anthropolgy 26:213-230.
> It also appears as a chapter in his book "Western Apache Language &
> Culture."
>
> lcp
>
> --
> Leighton C. Peterson, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Miami University
>
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> Date:    Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:06:31 +0000
> From:    "E. Summerson Carr" <esc at UCHICAGO.EDU>
> Subject: <No subject given>
>
> Alejandro,
>
> On free speech, check out Elise Kramer's work.  Here is a nice preview of
> it on the Wenner Gren blog:
> http://blog.wennergren.org/2012/04/interview-with-elise-kramer-on-mutual-minorityhood/
> .
>
> I'm also including a link to a forthcoming paper I wrote with my student,
> Yvonne Smith, focused on a highly stylized use of silence in an American
> psychotherapy I've been studying for some time. (Tried to attach it earlier
> to no avail). The paper, itself, is directed primarily to medical
> anthropologists, but the brief lit review may nevertheless prove helpful.
>  In addition to citing the work of Basso, Gal, Bauman, and Tannen's edited
> volume (which includes papers by Norma Mendoza-Denton and Sue Philips),
> you'll find reference to Greg Matoesian's fantastic stuff on silence in
> rape trials. Also note T.S. Harvey's book on silence in Mayan medical
> encounters, which I discovered recently.
>
>
> http://ssascholars.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/e-carr/files/practice_poetics_pre-copy_edit_cmp.pdf
>
> The paper has yet to be copy-edited, so please forgive the rough edges.
>  It should be out in the March issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry.
>
> All best,
>
> Summerson
>
>
> E. Summerson Carr
> Associate Professor
> SSA, University of Chicago
> 773-834-5877
>
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