مسئله زمینه: دیدگاه‌هایی از انسان‌شناسی اجتماعی و جاهای دیگر (روش‌شناسی و تاریخ در انسان‌شناسی، جلد ۴)

The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent ways. How do these ways differ? And what analytical strategies are adopted in order to suggest that the relevant context is "self-evident"? The notion of context has received less attention than is due such a central, key concept in social anthropology, as well as in other related disciplines. This collection of contributions from a group of leading social anthropologists and anthropological linguists addresses the question of how the idea of context is constructed, invoked, and deployed in the interpretations put forward by social anthropologists. The ethnographic focus embraces peoples from regions such as Bali, Europe, Malawi, and Zaire. Primarily theoretical in its aims, the work also draws on expertise from anthropological linguistics and philosophy in order to set the issue as much in a comparative disciplinary perspective as in a comparative cross-cultural one. Frontmatter Notes on Contributors (page vii) Preface (page ix) Introduction: The Problem of Context (Roy Dilley, page 1) 1. Contextualisation and Paradigm Shifts (Ladislav Holy, page 47) 2. Context, the Ghost in the Machine (Sándor G. J. Hervey, page 61) 3. New Paradigm Thinking in Linguistics: Meaning is the Context (Elżbieta Tabakowska, page 73) 4. Ethnographic Misunderstanding and the Perils of Context (Johannes Fabian, page 85) 5. As They Like It: Overinterpretation and Hyporeality in Bali (Mark Hobart, page 105) 6. Context and Interpretation: Reflections on Nyau Rituals in Malawi (Brian Morris, page 145) 7. The Holistic Individual: Context as Political Process in the New Age Movement (Ruth Prince and David Riches, page 167) 8. Context as an Act of Personal Externalisation: Gregory Bateson and the Harvey Family in the English Village of Wanet (Nigel Rapport, page 187) 9. Culture and Context: The Effects of Visibility (Penelope Harvey, page 213) Index (page 237) "Various disciplines use context to elucidate and interpret objects and events, but rarely is the idea of "context" itself examined. What meanings are evoked by this term? How do social anthropologists and those in related disciplines construe this idea? What analytical strategies are adopted in order to suggest that the relevant context is "self-evident"?" "This collection of contributions from a group of leading social anthropologists and anthropological linguists addresses the question of how the idea of context is constructed and deployed in the interpretations put forward by social anthropologists. The ethnographic focus embraces peoples from regions such as Bali, Europe, Malawi, and Zaire. Primarily theoretical in its aims, the work also draws on expertise from anthropological linguistics and philosophy in order to approach the issue from a comparative disciplinary perspective as well as from a cross-cultural one. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET