James M Wilce
Biographic Data
| ID | 589506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Wilce |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilce |
| SIGNATURE | WILCE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Arizona University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6363-4092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Introduction: Leila Monaghan’s Contributions to Anthropology
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Chrissina C. Burke, Aliyah Joy Balsiger, James Wilce, Donald A. Grushkin, Bonnie R. Marquez, Emery R. Eaves; Introduction: Leila Monaghan’s Contributions to Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology 1 September 2022; 44 (4): 2–4. doi: https:…
Medical Discourse
Linguistic anthropology is uniquely suited to the anthropological study of medicine, health, and healing. It provides evidence of a crucial role that discourse plays in medicine, asserting that medical discourse in the broadest sense – i.e. discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies – has great anthropological significance. As modes of social action, writing and speaking help con…
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion
This chapter approaches religion – and specifically present-day lived religious expression – from the perspective of emotions and learning to work with emotions. The particular emphasis is an approach that understands emotions as dynamic ways to relate to the self, different kinds of others, and the world. This relationality is in many more or less subtle ways enhanced, guided and regulated by religious teachings and rituals. The dynamics of reli…
Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion
Jak wstyd rozprzestrzenia się w nowoczesności
Nowoczesność zawdzięcza swoją ekspansję nie tylko technologii, lecz także rozpowszechnianiu określonych postaw emocjonalnych zbieżnych z modernizacyjnymi potrzebami. Globalne formy ekspresji uczuć stawiają lokalne emocje w pozycji „zacofanej”, a zawstydzanie staje się częścią procesu unowocześniania społeczeństw. Bez względu na to, czy zawstydzanie wywołuje ustępstwa czy silny opór, spotkanie lokalnej kultury z nowoczesnym wstydem jest etapem zap…
Emotion Pedagogies: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter
This introductory essay defines "emotion pedagogies" by identifying their distinctive qualities-an inclusive embrace of emotions often presented in the form of lists of emotion words to be spoken as part of "I-messages;" treating emotions as teachable skill bundles, like other sets of skills conveyed along the model of formal schooling and thus involving a high degree of curricularization; and finally, the spread of emotion pedagogies as reflecti…
Introduction: De-essentializing authenticity: A semiotic approach
"Sacred Psychotherapy in the "Age of Authenticity: Healing and Cultural Revivalism in Contemporary Finland
Like other European countries, contemporary Finland has witnessed an explosion of healing modalities designatable as "New Age" (though not without profound controversy, [1]). This paper focuses on Finnish courses in lament (wept song, tuneful weeping with words) that combine healing conceived along psychotherapeutic lines and lessons from the lament tradition of rural Karelia, a region some Finns regard as their cultural heartland. A primary goal…
Society, Language, History and Religion: A Perspective on Bangla from Linguistic Anthropology
The sociology of language and religion explores some of the same terrain as linguistic anthropology, this author’s disciplinary home. Anthropology is increasingly engaged in analysing history (change), a major concern of SLR (Fishman Decalogue principle No. 2). Anthropology has for at least two decades discarded reifying approaches to ‘culture’ in favour of those approaches that focus on contestation as well as the situational production and ‘dia…
Medical Discourse
Discourse plays an important role in medicine, and medical discourse in the broadest sense (discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies) has profound anthropological significance. As modes of social action, writing and speaking help constitute medical institutions, curative practices, and relations of authority in and beyond particular healing encounters. This review describes cul…
Scientizing Bangladeshi psychiatry: Parallelism, enregisterment, and the cure for a magic complex
This article combines textual, videotape, historical, and ethnographic evidence to describe the Bangla psychiatric register and its enregisterment. Enregisterment is a process “through which a linguistic repertoire becomes differentiable [and] ... socially recognized” (Agha 2003:231). The emergence of psychiatric registers in Europe and, later, Bangladesh bore the particular burden of psychiatry's “magic complex” – its need to convince a skeptica…
Magical Laments and Anthropological Reflections: The Production and Circulation of Anthropological Text as Ritual Activity
Anthropological writing becomes ritual when its unfolding argument structure parallels and thus its voice resonates with lament or even prayer. Structural features of lament are apparent in some ethnographies of lament, and anthropologists with no interest in traditional lament have nonetheless joined ineffectual modern elegies over modernitys destructiveness. Magical laments achieve their effects by thematically progressing from death to the aft…
Traditional Laments and Postmodern Regrets
Passionate Scholarship: Recent Anthropologies of Emotion
Where Hybrid "Monsters" Dwell
Madness, Fear, and Control in Bangladesh: Clashing Bodies of Power/Knowledge
This article presents an understanding of how Bangladeshis cope with madness in relation to two assumptions: that systems of knowledge and of power are coterminous, and that actors in medical encounters draw on incompatible and unequal bodies of knowledge-power. I first offer a perspective on psychiatry, emotion, and discourse in Bangladesh as a society increasingly caught up in globalizing modernity. Then I present two types of data to illumine …
To “Speak Beautifully” in Bangladesh: Subjectivity as Pāgalāmi
Introduction This chapter demonstrates that what Bangladeshis call pāgalāmi , madness, is shaped by metacommunicative pressures and cultural sensibilities touching gender and the aesthetics of behavior and experience. My analysis, inspired by linguistic anthropology, uncovers one aspect of the relationship between Bengali culture, language, and interactive style. I analyze a transcript of videotaped conversation with a person with schizophrenia t…
Speaking of Feelings
Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka. eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. 421 pp.Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling. Zoltan Kövecses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 223 pp.The Navigation of Feeling:. Framework for the History of Emotions. William Reddy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 308 pp
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies. Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel. eds. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 296 pp
Against relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine
Genres of Memory and the Memory of Genres: Forgetting' Lament in Bangladesh
This article seeks to place lament in the context of Asian modernities, theorize memory in relation to genres of performance, and introduce the notion of social technologies of forgetting. Evidence suggests that Bangladeshi culture is changing in ways congruent with some models of globalizing modernity. Indeed, my data indicate that displacing certain performance genres may be key to modernist transformation. Yet, several persons I describe here …
Divining Troubles , or Divining Troubles: Emergent and Conflictual Dimensions of Bangladeshi Divination
Divination is more dialogical than some diviners or anthropologists have made it appear. I analyze the transcript of one Bangladeshi divination event, comparing it with a dozen others performed by one diviner, Delwar, revealing how tenuously he manages to assign a single meaning to troubles, especially when clients openly compare his declarations with their intimate knowledge of those troubles. I explain how divinations could appear to be texts r…
Talk, Work, and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings
Talk, Work, and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings. Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. 529 pp., tables, index
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia. J. Joseph Errington Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 216 pp
Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in a Boston Shelter
Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in. Boston Shelter. Robert R. Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 320 pp
Emotion Pedagogies: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter
This introductory essay defines "emotion pedagogies" by identifying their distinctive qualities-an inclusive embrace of emotions often presented in the form of lists of emotion words to be spoken as part of "I-messages;" treating emotions as teachable skill bundles, like other sets of skills conveyed along the model of formal schooling and thus involving a high degree of curricularization; and finally, the spread of emotion pedagogies as reflecti…
Medical Discourse
Discourse plays an important role in medicine, and medical discourse in the broadest sense (discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies) has profound anthropological significance. As modes of social action, writing and speaking help constitute medical institutions, curative practices, and relations of authority in and beyond particular healing encounters. This review describes cul…
Traditional Laments and Postmodern Regrets
I can't tell you all my troubles: Conflict, resistance, and metacommunication in Bangladeshi illness interactions
Transcripts of interactions between patients, kin, and healers open up the lives of fourrogi ("sick ones" or "patients") in Matlab, Bangladesh. I compare the pattern of domination and resistance in those interactions with Western biomedical encounters. Patients in Matlab express dissatisfaction with the power relations of family or medicine through low-level means that do not enter discursive consciousness. By indirectly calling attention to the …
Divining Troubles , or Divining Troubles: Emergent and Conflictual Dimensions of Bangladeshi Divination
Divination is more dialogical than some diviners or anthropologists have made it appear. I analyze the transcript of one Bangladeshi divination event, comparing it with a dozen others performed by one diviner, Delwar, revealing how tenuously he manages to assign a single meaning to troubles, especially when clients openly compare his declarations with their intimate knowledge of those troubles. I explain how divinations could appear to be texts r…
Scientizing Bangladeshi psychiatry: Parallelism, enregisterment, and the cure for a magic complex
This article combines textual, videotape, historical, and ethnographic evidence to describe the Bangla psychiatric register and its enregisterment. Enregisterment is a process “through which a linguistic repertoire becomes differentiable [and] ... socially recognized” (Agha 2003:231). The emergence of psychiatric registers in Europe and, later, Bangladesh bore the particular burden of psychiatry's “magic complex” – its need to convince a skeptica…
Discourse, Power, and the Diagnosis of Weakness: Encountering Practitioners in Bangladesh
The author's experiences as a "patient" of nonbiomedical practitioners, and an examination of Bangladeshis' encounters with practitioners daktars [biomedical doctors], herbalists, exorcists, and diviners), reveal the interactive means by which the diagnosis of durbalata (weakness) is constructed. In the cases presented, facing power in the person of the practitioner means losing face. I argue that discursive phenomena above and below the lexical …
Passionate Scholarship: Recent Anthropologies of Emotion
The Kalimah In the Kaleidophone: Ranges of Multivocallty in Bangladeshi Muslim's Discourses
Bengali Muslims have long debated the place of religion, ideology, literary heritage, ethnicity, and various nationalisms in their identity. Contemporary identity ferment is exemplified in each of five examples of discourse explored herein. Replaying these voices "kaleidophonically" uncovers the vital, resistant, "fundamentally liberating" character of multivocality in Bengali Muslims' discourse, particularly in codeswitching, reported speech, an…
Madness, Fear, and Control in Bangladesh: Clashing Bodies of Power/Knowledge
This article presents an understanding of how Bangladeshis cope with madness in relation to two assumptions: that systems of knowledge and of power are coterminous, and that actors in medical encounters draw on incompatible and unequal bodies of knowledge-power. I first offer a perspective on psychiatry, emotion, and discourse in Bangladesh as a society increasingly caught up in globalizing modernity. Then I present two types of data to illumine …
"The Poetics of "Madness: Shifting Codes and Styles in the Linguistic Construction of Identity in Matlab, Bangladesh
Magical Laments and Anthropological Reflections: The Production and Circulation of Anthropological Text as Ritual Activity
Anthropological writing becomes ritual when its unfolding argument structure parallels and thus its voice resonates with lament or even prayer. Structural features of lament are apparent in some ethnographies of lament, and anthropologists with no interest in traditional lament have nonetheless joined ineffectual modern elegies over modernitys destructiveness. Magical laments achieve their effects by thematically progressing from death to the aft…
Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities: An Introduction
Genres of Memory and the Memory of Genres: Forgetting' Lament in Bangladesh
This article seeks to place lament in the context of Asian modernities, theorize memory in relation to genres of performance, and introduce the notion of social technologies of forgetting. Evidence suggests that Bangladeshi culture is changing in ways congruent with some models of globalizing modernity. Indeed, my data indicate that displacing certain performance genres may be key to modernist transformation. Yet, several persons I describe here …
Introduction: De-essentializing authenticity: A semiotic approach
"Sacred Psychotherapy in the "Age of Authenticity: Healing and Cultural Revivalism in Contemporary Finland
Like other European countries, contemporary Finland has witnessed an explosion of healing modalities designatable as "New Age" (though not without profound controversy, [1]). This paper focuses on Finnish courses in lament (wept song, tuneful weeping with words) that combine healing conceived along psychotherapeutic lines and lessons from the lament tradition of rural Karelia, a region some Finns regard as their cultural heartland. A primary goal…
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies. Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel. eds. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 296 pp
Talk, Work, and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings
Talk, Work, and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings. Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. 529 pp., tables, index
Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in a Boston Shelter
Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in. Boston Shelter. Robert R. Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 320 pp
Reduplication and Reciprocity in Imagining Community: The Play of Tropes in a Rural Bangladeshi Moot
The trope of the "body politic" is reproduced in a Bengali popular court, or moot, not only through explicit submetaphors of that master metaphor but through a grammatical example of what Peirce called diagrammatic iconism. The iconism of reduplicated verbs with reciprocal meaning became pivotal in the metacommunicative negotiation of the agenda of a rural Bangladeshi moot. Such forms of iconicity analyzed here play traceable roles in particular …
Speaking of Feelings
Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka. eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. 421 pp.Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling. Zoltan Kövecses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 223 pp.The Navigation of Feeling:. Framework for the History of Emotions. William Reddy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 308 pp
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia. J. Joseph Errington Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 216 pp
Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity
Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity. Benjamin Lee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. 376 pp
Purity and Communal Boundaries: Women and Social Change in a Bangladeshi Village. Santi Rozario
I can't tell you all my troubles: Conflict, resistance, and metacommunication in Bangladeshi illness interactions
Transcripts of interactions between patients, kin, and healers open up the lives of fourrogi ("sick ones" or "patients") in Matlab, Bangladesh. I compare the pattern of domination and resistance in those interactions with Western biomedical encounters. Patients in Matlab express dissatisfaction with the power relations of family or medicine through low-level means that do not enter discursive consciousness. By indirectly calling attention to the …
Reduplication and Reciprocity in Imagining Community: The Play of Tropes in a Rural Bangladeshi Moot
The trope of the "body politic" is reproduced in a Bengali popular court, or moot, not only through explicit submetaphors of that master metaphor but through a grammatical example of what Peirce called diagrammatic iconism. The iconism of reduplicated verbs with reciprocal meaning became pivotal in the metacommunicative negotiation of the agenda of a rural Bangladeshi moot. Such forms of iconicity analyzed here play traceable roles in particular …
Discourse, Power, and the Diagnosis of Weakness: Encountering Practitioners in Bangladesh
The author's experiences as a "patient" of nonbiomedical practitioners, and an examination of Bangladeshis' encounters with practitioners daktars [biomedical doctors], herbalists, exorcists, and diviners), reveal the interactive means by which the diagnosis of durbalata (weakness) is constructed. In the cases presented, facing power in the person of the practitioner means losing face. I argue that discursive phenomena above and below the lexical …
The Pragmatics of “madness”: Performance Analysis of a Bangladeshi Woman's “aberrant” Lament
The Kalimah In the Kaleidophone: Ranges of Multivocallty in Bangladeshi Muslim's Discourses
Bengali Muslims have long debated the place of religion, ideology, literary heritage, ethnicity, and various nationalisms in their identity. Contemporary identity ferment is exemplified in each of five examples of discourse explored herein. Replaying these voices "kaleidophonically" uncovers the vital, resistant, "fundamentally liberating" character of multivocality in Bengali Muslims' discourse, particularly in codeswitching, reported speech, an…
Communicating Multiple Identities in Muslim Communities: An Introduction
Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity
Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity. Benjamin Lee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. 376 pp
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia
Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia. J. Joseph Errington Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 216 pp
Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in a Boston Shelter
Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in. Boston Shelter. Robert R. Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 320 pp
"The Poetics of "Madness: Shifting Codes and Styles in the Linguistic Construction of Identity in Matlab, Bangladesh
Divining Troubles , or Divining Troubles: Emergent and Conflictual Dimensions of Bangladeshi Divination
Divination is more dialogical than some diviners or anthropologists have made it appear. I analyze the transcript of one Bangladeshi divination event, comparing it with a dozen others performed by one diviner, Delwar, revealing how tenuously he manages to assign a single meaning to troubles, especially when clients openly compare his declarations with their intimate knowledge of those troubles. I explain how divinations could appear to be texts r…
Talk, Work, and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings
Talk, Work, and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings. Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. 529 pp., tables, index
Against relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine
Genres of Memory and the Memory of Genres: Forgetting' Lament in Bangladesh
This article seeks to place lament in the context of Asian modernities, theorize memory in relation to genres of performance, and introduce the notion of social technologies of forgetting. Evidence suggests that Bangladeshi culture is changing in ways congruent with some models of globalizing modernity. Indeed, my data indicate that displacing certain performance genres may be key to modernist transformation. Yet, several persons I describe here …
To “Speak Beautifully” in Bangladesh: Subjectivity as Pāgalāmi
Introduction This chapter demonstrates that what Bangladeshis call pāgalāmi , madness, is shaped by metacommunicative pressures and cultural sensibilities touching gender and the aesthetics of behavior and experience. My analysis, inspired by linguistic anthropology, uncovers one aspect of the relationship between Bengali culture, language, and interactive style. I analyze a transcript of videotaped conversation with a person with schizophrenia t…
Speaking of Feelings
Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka. eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. 421 pp.Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling. Zoltan Kövecses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 223 pp.The Navigation of Feeling:. Framework for the History of Emotions. William Reddy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 308 pp
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies. Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel. eds. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 296 pp
Passionate Scholarship: Recent Anthropologies of Emotion
Where Hybrid "Monsters" Dwell
Madness, Fear, and Control in Bangladesh: Clashing Bodies of Power/Knowledge
This article presents an understanding of how Bangladeshis cope with madness in relation to two assumptions: that systems of knowledge and of power are coterminous, and that actors in medical encounters draw on incompatible and unequal bodies of knowledge-power. I first offer a perspective on psychiatry, emotion, and discourse in Bangladesh as a society increasingly caught up in globalizing modernity. Then I present two types of data to illumine …
Traditional Laments and Postmodern Regrets
Magical Laments and Anthropological Reflections: The Production and Circulation of Anthropological Text as Ritual Activity
Anthropological writing becomes ritual when its unfolding argument structure parallels and thus its voice resonates with lament or even prayer. Structural features of lament are apparent in some ethnographies of lament, and anthropologists with no interest in traditional lament have nonetheless joined ineffectual modern elegies over modernitys destructiveness. Magical laments achieve their effects by thematically progressing from death to the aft…
Scientizing Bangladeshi psychiatry: Parallelism, enregisterment, and the cure for a magic complex
This article combines textual, videotape, historical, and ethnographic evidence to describe the Bangla psychiatric register and its enregisterment. Enregisterment is a process “through which a linguistic repertoire becomes differentiable [and] ... socially recognized” (Agha 2003:231). The emergence of psychiatric registers in Europe and, later, Bangladesh bore the particular burden of psychiatry's “magic complex” – its need to convince a skeptica…
Medical Discourse
Discourse plays an important role in medicine, and medical discourse in the broadest sense (discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies) has profound anthropological significance. As modes of social action, writing and speaking help constitute medical institutions, curative practices, and relations of authority in and beyond particular healing encounters. This review describes cul…
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