Joel C Kuipers
Biographic Data
| ID | 81816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel C Kuipers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuipers |
| SIGNATURE | KUIPERS J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cellular ambivalence in a digital age
This article explores ambivalence to understand the cellular technology use of teenagers, their parents and teachers in Washington, DC. Our interlocutors view phones as crucial for managing school, work, friendship and family - while also providing potentially dangerous 'distractions'. The intimate possibilities afforded by these cell phones interact in unpredictable ways with the vast and largely unknown networked publics that phones often provi…
Context and Contextualization
While the notion of context has been in use for centuries, it has undergone remarkable conceptual refinement in the past 50 years. Once viewed in experimental psychology as a “nuisance variable,” among linguistic anthropologists it is associated with actor‐oriented meaning‐centered approaches to the description of communicative practice. The active process by which participants make relevant, cancel, or revise the interpretive process in conversa…
An orientation to be a good millennial Muslims: State and the politics of naming in islamizing Java
Traditionally, Javanese names pretend to be social classifications (priyayi class, santri class, abangan class, lower class, noble class, etc.) and as a marker of time or condition when they were born. In the last 30 years, however, the naming tradition has been increasingly abandoned by a new generation of parents in Java by taking on new names that have never existed in Javanese treasury of names: its linguistic variation is wider and has a fut…
The Materiality of Cell Phone Repair: Re-making Commodities in Washington, DC
In this piece, we shed light on the materiality of cell phones in the United States by comparing two cell phone repair shops in the Washington, DC metro region, and analyze the different ways in which these repair shops confront customers with the material realities of cell phones through variable yet systematic narratives and practices of repair. We argue that cell phone repair shops provide a distinctive site in which to unpack various articula…
Unseen Connections: The Materiality of Cell Phones
Unseen Connections:The Materiality of Cell Phones Joshua A. Bell, Briel Kobak, Joel Kuipers, and Amanda Kemble In his much cited 1986 essay on the "Cultural Biography of Things," Igor Kopytoff proposes a biographical approach to objects and things as a way to understand commodities and commodification. Doing so he remarks, "What would make a biography cultural is not what it deals with, but how and from what perspective. A culturally informed eco…
Islamization and Identity in Indonesia: The Case of Arabic Names in Java
A considerable amount of scholarly attention has rightly been devoted to the rise of normative forms of Islamic practice in Indonesia, and to the consequent decline of hybrid, syncretic forms of Islam for which Indonesia, and Java in particular, was once renowned. This article shows that syncretic identities—as expressed in the bestowal of Arabic and other names—appear to be growing at a surprisingly rapid rate. Drawing on a dataset of over three…
Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru by James Bourk Hoesterey
Reviewed by: Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru by James Bourk Hoesterey Joel Kuipers James Bourk Hoesterey, Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 296 pp. In this well written ethnography, Hoesterey places the fascinating story of the "rise and fall" of a popular Muslim televangelist (or "tele-dai") in the broader context of contemporary anthropological and rel…
Evidence and Authority in Ethnographic and Linguistic Perspective
A mainstream narrative in the academy casts hidebound authority as the enemy of evidence and, in many cases, the truth. In this review, I argue for an ethnographic and linguistic approach to evidence and authority as communicative practices that are not inherently opposed but rather inseparably intertwined. For ethnographers, authority can usefully be viewed as authorizing acts (recognizing that the act includes the receiver), and evidence can be…
Unmentionable Others: Representing Participation Frameworks in School Science
In the current US educational world-obsessed with accountability, measurement and testing-allocating responsibility for intellectual activity in school science can be problematic. While science education promotes "hands-on" learning and "lab work" that typically occur in a group context, many curriculum units also require students to represent their experiences as solitary, individual, and private. The data for this paper are drawn from a video e…
Science Education and Student Diversity: Synthesis and Research Agenda – By Okhee Lee and Aurolyn Luykx
Science Education and Student Diversity: Synthesis and Research Agenda . Okhee Lee and Aurolyn Luykx . New York : Cambridge University Press . xiv + 198 pp. Almost twenty years ago, Judith Irvine observed that one of Ferdinand de Saussure's “most durable legacies” has been the radical separation of the sign from the material world (“When talk isn't cheap: Language and political economy,” Judith T. Irvine, American Ethnologist, 1989:248–267). This…
Named speech registers and the inscription of locality in the Dutch East Indies
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Bambi B. Schieffelin. Kathryn A. Woolard. and Paul Kroskrit. eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiii. 338 pp., illustrations, references, index
Language, Identity and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of sumba
Ululations from the Weyewa Highlands (Sumba): Simultaneity, Audience Response, and Models of Cooperation
L'A. decrit puis etudie la technique vocale de l'hululement. Il cherche a montrer, a travers ce phenomene expressif, quels sont les types de relations etablies entre ceux qui le pratiquent et ceux qui l'ecoutent. Dans l'ile de Sumba en Indonesie, cette technique vocale s'accompagne d'un type de discours rituel fait de couplets (tenda) afin de communiquer avec les esprits ancestraux et les partenaires de l'alliance matrimoniale. L'hululement ou pa…
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba
Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but their significance has diminished, and the rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of political and religious authority has been described as the 'miracle of the developing world'. Among the Weyewa, on the island of Sumba, this shift has displaced a once vibrant tradition of ritual p…
Contemporary Headhunting
Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia. Janet Hoskins. ed. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.296 pp.Showing Signs of Violence: Tfte Cultural Politics of. Twentieth Century Headhunting Ritual. Kenneth George. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 356 pp
Kinship and Religion in Eastern Indonesia. David HICKS
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourse. Joel SHERZER
Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech
Rituals and Socio-Cosmic Order in Eastern Indonesian Societies
Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech
Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm. SHELLY ERRINGTON
Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech
Among the Weyewa of the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, spokesmen seek to inscribe their traditions and sacred obligations through ritual speaking performances. In a series of lively poetic dialogues, performers use a distinctive couplet style to pursue the trail of their ancestors
"Medical Discourse" in Anthropological Context: Views of Language and Power
The Language Parallax: Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy
Introduction 2. A Background History of Linguistic Relativism 3. Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy: A Reformulation of Sapir's Position 4. Indeterminacy in Linguistic Fieldwork 5. The Poetry of Language in the Politics of Dreams 6. The Unheralded Revolution in the Sonnet: Toward a Generative Model 7. The Poem as Parallactic Position: Seven Poems 8. Linguistic Relativity and the Order-to-Chaos Continuum 9. Toward an Improved Theory of…
"Medical Discourse" in Anthropological Context: Views of Language and Power
Evidence and Authority in Ethnographic and Linguistic Perspective
A mainstream narrative in the academy casts hidebound authority as the enemy of evidence and, in many cases, the truth. In this review, I argue for an ethnographic and linguistic approach to evidence and authority as communicative practices that are not inherently opposed but rather inseparably intertwined. For ethnographers, authority can usefully be viewed as authorizing acts (recognizing that the act includes the receiver), and evidence can be…
Talking About Troubles: Gender differences in Weyéwa speech use
In the Weyéwa highlands of western Sumba, men and women employ a richly metaphorical, poetic form of "ritual speech" in response to sudden misfortune. Men's speech, in the context of divination, placation rites, and celebration songs, tends to be strictly parallelistic, narrative, and indirect, and concerns the continuity of the patriline. Men are regularly paid for their performances, but may be fined for errors. Women's ritual responses to misf…
Place, names, and authority in Weyéwa ritual speech
Among the Weyéwa of the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, place names are not merely labels or verbal tools for referring to locations, but rather resources for the construction of discourse. As such, they figure in Weyéwa ritual speech events in two fundamental ways. First, an individual place name can be the topic of etymological speculation, in which the verbal account of the history of a name is an exercise in the establishment of authority…
Named speech registers and the inscription of locality in the Dutch East Indies
Unseen Connections: The Materiality of Cell Phones
Unseen Connections:The Materiality of Cell Phones Joshua A. Bell, Briel Kobak, Joel Kuipers, and Amanda Kemble In his much cited 1986 essay on the "Cultural Biography of Things," Igor Kopytoff proposes a biographical approach to objects and things as a way to understand commodities and commodification. Doing so he remarks, "What would make a biography cultural is not what it deals with, but how and from what perspective. A culturally informed eco…
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Bambi B. Schieffelin. Kathryn A. Woolard. and Paul Kroskrit. eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiii. 338 pp., illustrations, references, index
Rituals and Socio-Cosmic Order in Eastern Indonesian Societies
Cellular ambivalence in a digital age
This article explores ambivalence to understand the cellular technology use of teenagers, their parents and teachers in Washington, DC. Our interlocutors view phones as crucial for managing school, work, friendship and family - while also providing potentially dangerous 'distractions'. The intimate possibilities afforded by these cell phones interact in unpredictable ways with the vast and largely unknown networked publics that phones often provi…
An orientation to be a good millennial Muslims: State and the politics of naming in islamizing Java
Traditionally, Javanese names pretend to be social classifications (priyayi class, santri class, abangan class, lower class, noble class, etc.) and as a marker of time or condition when they were born. In the last 30 years, however, the naming tradition has been increasingly abandoned by a new generation of parents in Java by taking on new names that have never existed in Javanese treasury of names: its linguistic variation is wider and has a fut…
The Materiality of Cell Phone Repair: Re-making Commodities in Washington, DC
In this piece, we shed light on the materiality of cell phones in the United States by comparing two cell phone repair shops in the Washington, DC metro region, and analyze the different ways in which these repair shops confront customers with the material realities of cell phones through variable yet systematic narratives and practices of repair. We argue that cell phone repair shops provide a distinctive site in which to unpack various articula…
Unmentionable Others: Representing Participation Frameworks in School Science
In the current US educational world-obsessed with accountability, measurement and testing-allocating responsibility for intellectual activity in school science can be problematic. While science education promotes "hands-on" learning and "lab work" that typically occur in a group context, many curriculum units also require students to represent their experiences as solitary, individual, and private. The data for this paper are drawn from a video e…
Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech
Place, names, and authority in Weyéwa ritual speech
Among the Weyéwa of the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, place names are not merely labels or verbal tools for referring to locations, but rather resources for the construction of discourse. As such, they figure in Weyéwa ritual speech events in two fundamental ways. First, an individual place name can be the topic of etymological speculation, in which the verbal account of the history of a name is an exercise in the establishment of authority…
The Language Parallax: Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy
Introduction 2. A Background History of Linguistic Relativism 3. Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy: A Reformulation of Sapir's Position 4. Indeterminacy in Linguistic Fieldwork 5. The Poetry of Language in the Politics of Dreams 6. The Unheralded Revolution in the Sonnet: Toward a Generative Model 7. The Poem as Parallactic Position: Seven Poems 8. Linguistic Relativity and the Order-to-Chaos Continuum 9. Toward an Improved Theory of…
Talking About Troubles: Gender differences in Weyéwa speech use
In the Weyéwa highlands of western Sumba, men and women employ a richly metaphorical, poetic form of "ritual speech" in response to sudden misfortune. Men's speech, in the context of divination, placation rites, and celebration songs, tends to be strictly parallelistic, narrative, and indirect, and concerns the continuity of the patriline. Men are regularly paid for their performances, but may be fined for errors. Women's ritual responses to misf…
"Medical Discourse" in Anthropological Context: Views of Language and Power
Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech
Among the Weyewa of the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, spokesmen seek to inscribe their traditions and sacred obligations through ritual speaking performances. In a series of lively poetic dialogues, performers use a distinctive couplet style to pursue the trail of their ancestors
Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech
Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm. SHELLY ERRINGTON
Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech
Rituals and Socio-Cosmic Order in Eastern Indonesian Societies
Kinship and Religion in Eastern Indonesia. David HICKS
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourse. Joel SHERZER
Contemporary Headhunting
Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia. Janet Hoskins. ed. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.296 pp.Showing Signs of Violence: Tfte Cultural Politics of. Twentieth Century Headhunting Ritual. Kenneth George. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 356 pp
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba
Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but their significance has diminished, and the rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of political and religious authority has been described as the 'miracle of the developing world'. Among the Weyewa, on the island of Sumba, this shift has displaced a once vibrant tradition of ritual p…
Ululations from the Weyewa Highlands (Sumba): Simultaneity, Audience Response, and Models of Cooperation
L'A. decrit puis etudie la technique vocale de l'hululement. Il cherche a montrer, a travers ce phenomene expressif, quels sont les types de relations etablies entre ceux qui le pratiquent et ceux qui l'ecoutent. Dans l'ile de Sumba en Indonesie, cette technique vocale s'accompagne d'un type de discours rituel fait de couplets (tenda) afin de communiquer avec les esprits ancestraux et les partenaires de l'alliance matrimoniale. L'hululement ou pa…
Language, Identity and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of sumba
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Bambi B. Schieffelin. Kathryn A. Woolard. and Paul Kroskrit. eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiii. 338 pp., illustrations, references, index
Named speech registers and the inscription of locality in the Dutch East Indies
Science Education and Student Diversity: Synthesis and Research Agenda – By Okhee Lee and Aurolyn Luykx
Science Education and Student Diversity: Synthesis and Research Agenda . Okhee Lee and Aurolyn Luykx . New York : Cambridge University Press . xiv + 198 pp. Almost twenty years ago, Judith Irvine observed that one of Ferdinand de Saussure's “most durable legacies” has been the radical separation of the sign from the material world (“When talk isn't cheap: Language and political economy,” Judith T. Irvine, American Ethnologist, 1989:248–267). This…
Unmentionable Others: Representing Participation Frameworks in School Science
In the current US educational world-obsessed with accountability, measurement and testing-allocating responsibility for intellectual activity in school science can be problematic. While science education promotes "hands-on" learning and "lab work" that typically occur in a group context, many curriculum units also require students to represent their experiences as solitary, individual, and private. The data for this paper are drawn from a video e…
Evidence and Authority in Ethnographic and Linguistic Perspective
A mainstream narrative in the academy casts hidebound authority as the enemy of evidence and, in many cases, the truth. In this review, I argue for an ethnographic and linguistic approach to evidence and authority as communicative practices that are not inherently opposed but rather inseparably intertwined. For ethnographers, authority can usefully be viewed as authorizing acts (recognizing that the act includes the receiver), and evidence can be…
Islamization and Identity in Indonesia: The Case of Arabic Names in Java
A considerable amount of scholarly attention has rightly been devoted to the rise of normative forms of Islamic practice in Indonesia, and to the consequent decline of hybrid, syncretic forms of Islam for which Indonesia, and Java in particular, was once renowned. This article shows that syncretic identities—as expressed in the bestowal of Arabic and other names—appear to be growing at a surprisingly rapid rate. Drawing on a dataset of over three…
Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru by James Bourk Hoesterey
Reviewed by: Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru by James Bourk Hoesterey Joel Kuipers James Bourk Hoesterey, Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 296 pp. In this well written ethnography, Hoesterey places the fascinating story of the "rise and fall" of a popular Muslim televangelist (or "tele-dai") in the broader context of contemporary anthropological and rel…
The Materiality of Cell Phone Repair: Re-making Commodities in Washington, DC
In this piece, we shed light on the materiality of cell phones in the United States by comparing two cell phone repair shops in the Washington, DC metro region, and analyze the different ways in which these repair shops confront customers with the material realities of cell phones through variable yet systematic narratives and practices of repair. We argue that cell phone repair shops provide a distinctive site in which to unpack various articula…
Unseen Connections: The Materiality of Cell Phones
Unseen Connections:The Materiality of Cell Phones Joshua A. Bell, Briel Kobak, Joel Kuipers, and Amanda Kemble In his much cited 1986 essay on the "Cultural Biography of Things," Igor Kopytoff proposes a biographical approach to objects and things as a way to understand commodities and commodification. Doing so he remarks, "What would make a biography cultural is not what it deals with, but how and from what perspective. A culturally informed eco…
An orientation to be a good millennial Muslims: State and the politics of naming in islamizing Java
Traditionally, Javanese names pretend to be social classifications (priyayi class, santri class, abangan class, lower class, noble class, etc.) and as a marker of time or condition when they were born. In the last 30 years, however, the naming tradition has been increasingly abandoned by a new generation of parents in Java by taking on new names that have never existed in Javanese treasury of names: its linguistic variation is wider and has a fut…
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