"In lieu of "keywords
Toward an anthropology of rapport
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2260098 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew M Carruthers (0000-0001-9303-1524, Department of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 478-492 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aman.13881 |
| OpenAlex | W4381852406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 63 |
The identification of socioculturally important "keywords" remains a distinctive feature of critical social theory. This article asks why this is so while offering a critique of "keyword projects" as they have been formulated and pursued across cultural studies and anthropology. Such projects often remain inattentive to wider patterns of sign relations, concealing from ethnographic view the very patterns within which key "words" emerge and are embedded. Overlooking these patterns precludes finer-grained considerations of what makes certain words situationally "key" within sociocultural life. Engaging with migrant mobilities across the borderlands and borderwaters of Indonesia and Malaysia, the article examines keywords not simply as sociocultural formations or semiotic regularities, per se, but as captions for and construals of fashions of speaking and forms of life. Connecting hitherto unconnected accounts of "rapport," it illustrates how anthropologists might move beyond "keyword talk" to more fully consider how rapport configures anthropological assumptions about "keyness" itself
Aesthetics · Construal level theory · Construals · Cultural anthropology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identification (biology · Key (lock · Linguistics · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Ecology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The Dialogic Imagination
Anthropocene Unseen
Interpreting Clifford Geertz
The Anxieties of Mobility
Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
Language Structure, Lexical Meaning, and Cognition
Word
Making Connections
Agent, Person, Subject, Self
Keyness in Texts
A New Criminal Type in Jakarta
Comparison as a Matter of Concern
Money Talk and Conduct from Cowries to Bitcoin
Pasompe' Ugi
Living in the Stone Age
Knowledge hegemonies and autonomous knowledge
The Essential Peirce
Poetry, language, thought
Their Accent Would Betray Them
Language
Language and Social Relations
On Semiotic Ideology
Talking Heads
Word and the Americanist perspective
Musical Articulation
The uniqueness of the word
The Idea of Black Culture
Concept' and 'communication' in evolutionary terms
Policing Intensity
What Is the Style of Matters of Concern
Self and self-conduct among the Javanese priyayi elite
Linguistic Magic Bullets in the Making of a Modernist Anthropology
On Key Symbols1
Postscript
Ethnographic Macro-Tropes and Anthropological Theory
Problems All the Way Down
Specters of excess
Grading Qualities and (Un)settling Equivalences
Phatic Violence? Gambling and the Arts of Distraction in Laos
Elective Affinities of the Protestant Ethic
"In lieu of "keywords
Teawords
Delinking
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |