Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian SocietyWebb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indonesian island of Sumba. Weaving together sharply observed narrative, close analysis of poetic speech and valuable objects, and far-reaching theoretical discussion, Signs of Recognition explores the risks endemic in representational practices. An awareness of risk is embedded in the very forms of ritual speech and exchange. The possibilities for failure and slippage reveal people's mutual vulnerabilities and give words and things part of their power. Keane shows how the dilemmas posed by the effort to use and control language and objects are implicated with general problems of power, authority, and agency. He persuades us to look differently at ideas of voice and value. Integrating the analysis of words and things, this book contributes to a wide range of fields, including linguistic anthropology, cultural studies, social theory, and the studies of material culture, art, and political economy. |
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Introduction Representation Recognition and Hazard | 1 |
REPRESENTATION AGENCY AND MATERIALITY | 5 |
ORDINARY OBJECTIFICATION | 9 |
RECOGNITION | 14 |
FORM AND REFLECTION | 16 |
CAUSATION AND SIGNIFICATION | 18 |
SPEECH AND POLITICAL ECONOMY | 20 |
THE DIFFICULTIES OF REPRESENTATION AND THE HAZARDS OF ENCOUNTER | 23 |
THE WORK OF REFLECTION | 120 |
ICONISM AND HIDDEN NAMES | 127 |
DISPLACEMENT AUTHORITY AND DANGER | 133 |
Voices Agents and Interlocutors | 138 |
VOICE AND AGENCY | 139 |
GATHERING TOGETHER | 145 |
FACING THE OTHER | 149 |
THE SPEECH OF NEGOTIATION | 156 |
Geography History and Sociality | 29 |
ORDER AND REPRESENTATION AS ETHNOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS | 33 |
GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY | 36 |
KABISU AND BLOOD FELLOWS | 48 |
THE VALUE AND CHALLENGE OF AFFINES | 51 |
DEPENDENT SLAVE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF RANK | 57 |
TOWARD MEDIATION | 63 |
Things of Value | 65 |
WORK GENDER AND TRANSFORMATION | 67 |
REGIMES OF VALUE | 72 |
METAL AND CLOTH | 75 |
THE EXCESS OF MEANINGS | 78 |
SOCIAL ANIMALS | 81 |
DOUBLED SIGNS | 86 |
AMBIGUOUS ATTACHMENTS | 91 |
Loaded Terms | 94 |
LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY | 97 |
PARALLELISM | 101 |
INTERPRETING COUPLETS | 106 |
CANON AND CONTEXT | 111 |
Text Context and Displacement | 115 |
BOUNDARIES AND CONTEXT | 117 |
THE SLIPPAGE OF WORDS | 163 |
CHALLENGES | 167 |
QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY | 169 |
SELFREPRESENTATION AND SOCIAL ACTION | 173 |
Formality and the Economy of Signs | 176 |
THE RULE OF ACTION | 179 |
THE IDEA OF PATA AND THE VALUE OF OUTCOMES | 186 |
OBJECTS AND OTHER PEOPLE | 191 |
THE MARKS LEFT BY WORDS | 195 |
Subjects and the Vicissitudes of Objects | 199 |
THE CONCEPT OF DEWA | 202 |
DEWA AND VICISSITUDE | 206 |
BEYOND RISK | 208 |
ANCESTRAL VALUABLES | 211 |
RENEWAL AND RECOGNITION | 217 |
DEMONIC VALUE | 219 |
THE ACTIVITY OF PERSISTENCE | 222 |
Conclusion | 224 |
Notes | 237 |
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