Joel Kuipers
Biographic Data
| ID | 95756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Kuipers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuipers |
| SIGNATURE | KUIPERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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…
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…
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
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court Susan F. Hirsch (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998
Oratory
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
Rituals and Socio-Cosmic Order in Eastern Indonesian Societies
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…
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…
Named speech registers and the inscription of locality in the Dutch East Indies
Oratory
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…
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court Susan F. Hirsch (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998
Rituals and Socio-Cosmic Order in Eastern Indonesian Societies
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…
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…
Rituals and Socio-Cosmic Order in Eastern Indonesian Societies
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
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court
Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court Susan F. Hirsch (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998
Oratory
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…
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…
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…
Sociology (10 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)