Talking Violence: An Anthropological Interpretation of Conversation in the Modern City

Author:   Nigel Rapport
Publisher:   Memorial University Press
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9780919666566


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   November 1988
Format:   Paperback
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Talking Violence: An Anthropological Interpretation of Conversation in the Modern City


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Talking Violence is a conversational journey around St. John's, reconstructing the repeated discussions about violence heard in bars, cars, courts-of-law, halfway houses, hospitals and the university. Rapport offers an interpretation of these conversations; arguing that language should not be viewed as an instrument of coercion directing its users to the reproduction of a monolithic social structure, but rather as a vehicle of creativeness allowing people to construct local identities for themselves and their own worlds of meaning.

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Author:   Nigel Rapport
Publisher:   Memorial University Press
Imprint:   ISER Books
ISBN:  

9780919666566


ISBN 10:   0919666566
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   November 1988
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Educated at Cambridge and Manchester Universities, and a Fellow of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Nigel Rapport has conducted fieldwork in the Yorkshire Dales and Newfoundland, and held research and teaching posts in social anthropology at Manchester and Memorial.

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