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RR 2004/308 A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology Edited by Alessandro Duranti Blackwell Oxford and Malden, MA 2004 xx+625 pp. ISBN 0 631 223525 £85/$124.95 Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, 1
Keywords Anthropology, Linguistics, Language, Culture (sociology)
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120410552507
This hefty, immaculate volume inaugurates the innovative series of Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, and does so with academic panache.
These companions offer comprehensive synthesis of the traditional sub-disciplines, primary subjects, and geographic areas of inquiry in the broad field of anthropology. Taken together, they are a contemporary survey of anthropology and also a guide to emerging research and intellectual trends in that field. Further volumes will cover political anthropology, psychological anthropology, the anthropology of Japan, and the anthropology of American Indians. Linguistic anthropology focuses on the interface between linguistic forms and the cultural practices that they help constitute. The 22 essays of this Companion are in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches in contemporary study of language as culture, opening up new perspectives and formulating...