TY - BOOK ID - 77859912 TI - Signs of recognition : powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society PY - 1997 SN - 0520917634 0585106010 9780520917637 9780585106014 9780520204751 0520204751 9780520204744 0520204743 0520204743 0520204751 PB - Berkeley, California : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Anakalang (Indonesian people) KW - Social structure KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Representation (Philosophy) KW - Anakalang dialect KW - Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East KW - History & Archaeology KW - East Asia KW - Anakalangese dialect KW - Anakalangu dialect KW - Sumba language KW - Representationalism (Philosophy) KW - Representationism (Philosophy) KW - Culture KW - Philosophy KW - Human relations KW - Interpersonal relationships KW - Personal relations KW - Relations, Interpersonal KW - Relationships, Interpersonal KW - Social behavior KW - Social psychology KW - Object relations (Psychoanalysis) KW - Organization, Social KW - Social organization KW - Anthropology KW - Sociology KW - Social institutions KW - Anakalangese (Indonesian people) KW - Anakalangu (Indonesian people) KW - Ethnology KW - Sumbanese (Indonesian people) KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Social conditions KW - Psychology KW - Semantics KW - Discourse analysis KW - Sumba Island (Indonesia) KW - Social life and customs. KW - Pulau Sumba (Indonesia) KW - Sandalwood Island (Indonesia) KW - Soemba Island (Indonesia) KW - Lesser Sunda Islands KW - Anakalang dialect. KW - Psychology. KW - Semantics. KW - Discourse analysis. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77859912 AB - Webb 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. ER -