Charles H P Zuckerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 628401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles H P Zuckerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles H P |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuckerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZUCKERMAN C H P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4101-3428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Moorings: Linguistic Practices and the Tethering of Action, Status, and Experience
Contains fulltext : 309689.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access
Video footage and the grain of practice
In his essay on the cockfight, Clifford Geertz charted a now familiar course in anthropological argument. He showed how the minute details of a practice can dramatize cultural ideas about it. Many anthropologists since have been persuaded that “practice” matters, that carefully examining the conduct of events is bound to reveal something about the status of such events in cultural life. This article reflects on the role of video footage in this e…
The limits of thematization
A fundamental capacity of language is its reflexivity. But not every aspect of language is equally accessible to being reflected upon. Michael Silverstein's 1981 paper, the "Limits of Awareness," set the terms of this discussion in linguistic anthropology with his study of speakers' "awareness" of pragmatic forms and their corresponding capacity to talk about them. His notion of differential "awareness" of aspects of language has since been found…
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life
At a sparsely populated wake in Luang Prabang, Laos, the guests appeared to restrain themselves from evaluating the deceased's son-in-law to his face, even as they said to one another that he had neglected his mother-in-law and pocketed the funds for her wake to feed his methamphetamine habit. What are we to do with moments of apparent restraint like this, those meaningful silences in which signs of evaluation seem partially withheld, transfigure…
The limits of bodies: Gatherings and the problem of collective presence
Modern social collectivities-such as nations, publics, and political movements-depend upon the capacity of media technologies to transcend bodily proximity. The contemporary proliferation of such remote sociality may seem to render physical gatherings superfluous. But at times, people go to great pains to manifest collectivities by assembling bodies in one place. This article explores what we should make of cases in which it is not enough for col…
The unbearable heaviness of being Kri: House construction and ethnolinguistic transformation in upland Laos
Kri people in central Laos traditionally engage in 'heavy' practices, including a stipulation that houses must be relocated and the flooring discarded upon a death in the family. Such 'heavy' practices are considered 'real Kri', and they are not adhered to by those who identify as Kri Phòòngq. This article examines the adoption of more enduring housing construction among the Kri, and the dynamics of ethnic identity implied by the dilemmas raised …
Figure Composition
Linguistic anthropologists have shown that the way a person reports speech or represents discourse—for example, whether they ‘put on an accent’ or merely repeat attributed words—is crucial for understanding what social action that person is undertaking. And yet, our tools for talking about the form of represented discourse are still crude. This paper offers a new tool in the notion of figure composition, defined as the formal semiotic elements th…
On the unity of types: Lao gambling, ethno-metapragmatics, and generic and specific modes of typification
In Luang Prabang, Laos,pétanqueplayers distinguish two types of gambling: 'gambling for beer' and 'gambling for money'. They readily and vividly contrast these types in abstraction but are more circumspect about identifying actual games as instances of one kind or another. In this article, I trace how players use these types in two modes of typification-as generics and specifics-and articulate a new way to approach similar salient and ideological…
Introduction to the Generic Special Issue
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Phatic, The: Communication and Communion
The notion of the “phatic” is less a single empirical object than a tangled thread of inquiry, separable into two senses of phaticity: communion phaticity and contact phaticity . The former sense is a shorthand for “small talk” aimed at building relations rather than imparting information. The latter sense captures the extent to which signs are oriented toward communicative contact. Recent work on the phatic demonstrates that people the world ove…
Don't gamble for money with friends: Moral-economic types and their uses
Some anthropologists have developed "processual" approaches to classification, arguing that we should turn our attention from reified categories to processes of categorization. A focus on how gamblers in Luang Prabang, Laos, use the categories "gambling for beer" and "gambling for money" makes clear that an adequate processual approach must disentangle two kinds of typification: one generic, one specific. People in Luang Prabang are drawn to cate…
Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town By Anthony J. Pickles
Phatic Violence? Gambling and the Arts of Distraction in Laos
Tempted," as he put it, by the "demon of terminological invention," Malinowski first coined the term "phatic" as one half of a two-word compound, "phatic communion." Since Malinowski, "phatic" has often been used to imply a semiotic equation where mere communicative contact automatically produces positive social relations among those communicating. This article explores a genre of "trash talk" on the pétanque gambling courts of Luang Prabang, Lao…
Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos - By Holly High
Peer Reviewed
The Relationship of Theories of Universals to Theories of Church Government in the Middle Ages: A Critique of Previous Views
Phatic Violence? Gambling and the Arts of Distraction in Laos
Tempted," as he put it, by the "demon of terminological invention," Malinowski first coined the term "phatic" as one half of a two-word compound, "phatic communion." Since Malinowski, "phatic" has often been used to imply a semiotic equation where mere communicative contact automatically produces positive social relations among those communicating. This article explores a genre of "trash talk" on the pétanque gambling courts of Luang Prabang, Lao…
Don't gamble for money with friends: Moral-economic types and their uses
Some anthropologists have developed "processual" approaches to classification, arguing that we should turn our attention from reified categories to processes of categorization. A focus on how gamblers in Luang Prabang, Laos, use the categories "gambling for beer" and "gambling for money" makes clear that an adequate processual approach must disentangle two kinds of typification: one generic, one specific. People in Luang Prabang are drawn to cate…
The unbearable heaviness of being Kri: House construction and ethnolinguistic transformation in upland Laos
Kri people in central Laos traditionally engage in 'heavy' practices, including a stipulation that houses must be relocated and the flooring discarded upon a death in the family. Such 'heavy' practices are considered 'real Kri', and they are not adhered to by those who identify as Kri Phòòngq. This article examines the adoption of more enduring housing construction among the Kri, and the dynamics of ethnic identity implied by the dilemmas raised …
On the unity of types: Lao gambling, ethno-metapragmatics, and generic and specific modes of typification
In Luang Prabang, Laos,pétanqueplayers distinguish two types of gambling: 'gambling for beer' and 'gambling for money'. They readily and vividly contrast these types in abstraction but are more circumspect about identifying actual games as instances of one kind or another. In this article, I trace how players use these types in two modes of typification-as generics and specifics-and articulate a new way to approach similar salient and ideological…
Introduction to the Generic Special Issue
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The limits of thematization
A fundamental capacity of language is its reflexivity. But not every aspect of language is equally accessible to being reflected upon. Michael Silverstein's 1981 paper, the "Limits of Awareness," set the terms of this discussion in linguistic anthropology with his study of speakers' "awareness" of pragmatic forms and their corresponding capacity to talk about them. His notion of differential "awareness" of aspects of language has since been found…
The limits of bodies: Gatherings and the problem of collective presence
Modern social collectivities-such as nations, publics, and political movements-depend upon the capacity of media technologies to transcend bodily proximity. The contemporary proliferation of such remote sociality may seem to render physical gatherings superfluous. But at times, people go to great pains to manifest collectivities by assembling bodies in one place. This article explores what we should make of cases in which it is not enough for col…
Figure Composition
Linguistic anthropologists have shown that the way a person reports speech or represents discourse—for example, whether they ‘put on an accent’ or merely repeat attributed words—is crucial for understanding what social action that person is undertaking. And yet, our tools for talking about the form of represented discourse are still crude. This paper offers a new tool in the notion of figure composition, defined as the formal semiotic elements th…
Moorings: Linguistic Practices and the Tethering of Action, Status, and Experience
Contains fulltext : 309689.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life
At a sparsely populated wake in Luang Prabang, Laos, the guests appeared to restrain themselves from evaluating the deceased's son-in-law to his face, even as they said to one another that he had neglected his mother-in-law and pocketed the funds for her wake to feed his methamphetamine habit. What are we to do with moments of apparent restraint like this, those meaningful silences in which signs of evaluation seem partially withheld, transfigure…
The Relationship of Theories of Universals to Theories of Church Government in the Middle Ages: A Critique of Previous Views
Phatic Violence? Gambling and the Arts of Distraction in Laos
Tempted," as he put it, by the "demon of terminological invention," Malinowski first coined the term "phatic" as one half of a two-word compound, "phatic communion." Since Malinowski, "phatic" has often been used to imply a semiotic equation where mere communicative contact automatically produces positive social relations among those communicating. This article explores a genre of "trash talk" on the pétanque gambling courts of Luang Prabang, Lao…
Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos - By Holly High
Peer Reviewed
Phatic, The: Communication and Communion
The notion of the “phatic” is less a single empirical object than a tangled thread of inquiry, separable into two senses of phaticity: communion phaticity and contact phaticity . The former sense is a shorthand for “small talk” aimed at building relations rather than imparting information. The latter sense captures the extent to which signs are oriented toward communicative contact. Recent work on the phatic demonstrates that people the world ove…
Don't gamble for money with friends: Moral-economic types and their uses
Some anthropologists have developed "processual" approaches to classification, arguing that we should turn our attention from reified categories to processes of categorization. A focus on how gamblers in Luang Prabang, Laos, use the categories "gambling for beer" and "gambling for money" makes clear that an adequate processual approach must disentangle two kinds of typification: one generic, one specific. People in Luang Prabang are drawn to cate…
Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town By Anthony J. Pickles
Figure Composition
Linguistic anthropologists have shown that the way a person reports speech or represents discourse—for example, whether they ‘put on an accent’ or merely repeat attributed words—is crucial for understanding what social action that person is undertaking. And yet, our tools for talking about the form of represented discourse are still crude. This paper offers a new tool in the notion of figure composition, defined as the formal semiotic elements th…
On the unity of types: Lao gambling, ethno-metapragmatics, and generic and specific modes of typification
In Luang Prabang, Laos,pétanqueplayers distinguish two types of gambling: 'gambling for beer' and 'gambling for money'. They readily and vividly contrast these types in abstraction but are more circumspect about identifying actual games as instances of one kind or another. In this article, I trace how players use these types in two modes of typification-as generics and specifics-and articulate a new way to approach similar salient and ideological…
Introduction to the Generic Special Issue
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life
At a sparsely populated wake in Luang Prabang, Laos, the guests appeared to restrain themselves from evaluating the deceased's son-in-law to his face, even as they said to one another that he had neglected his mother-in-law and pocketed the funds for her wake to feed his methamphetamine habit. What are we to do with moments of apparent restraint like this, those meaningful silences in which signs of evaluation seem partially withheld, transfigure…
The limits of bodies: Gatherings and the problem of collective presence
Modern social collectivities-such as nations, publics, and political movements-depend upon the capacity of media technologies to transcend bodily proximity. The contemporary proliferation of such remote sociality may seem to render physical gatherings superfluous. But at times, people go to great pains to manifest collectivities by assembling bodies in one place. This article explores what we should make of cases in which it is not enough for col…
The unbearable heaviness of being Kri: House construction and ethnolinguistic transformation in upland Laos
Kri people in central Laos traditionally engage in 'heavy' practices, including a stipulation that houses must be relocated and the flooring discarded upon a death in the family. Such 'heavy' practices are considered 'real Kri', and they are not adhered to by those who identify as Kri Phòòngq. This article examines the adoption of more enduring housing construction among the Kri, and the dynamics of ethnic identity implied by the dilemmas raised …
Video footage and the grain of practice
In his essay on the cockfight, Clifford Geertz charted a now familiar course in anthropological argument. He showed how the minute details of a practice can dramatize cultural ideas about it. Many anthropologists since have been persuaded that “practice” matters, that carefully examining the conduct of events is bound to reveal something about the status of such events in cultural life. This article reflects on the role of video footage in this e…
The limits of thematization
A fundamental capacity of language is its reflexivity. But not every aspect of language is equally accessible to being reflected upon. Michael Silverstein's 1981 paper, the "Limits of Awareness," set the terms of this discussion in linguistic anthropology with his study of speakers' "awareness" of pragmatic forms and their corresponding capacity to talk about them. His notion of differential "awareness" of aspects of language has since been found…
Moorings: Linguistic Practices and the Tethering of Action, Status, and Experience
Contains fulltext : 309689.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access
Sociology (13 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)