The Anthropology of Intensity: Language, Culture, and Environment Kockelman Paul
The Anthropology of Intensity: Language, Culture, and Environment Kockelman Paul What is it that makes a person blush when about to speak in front of a crowd? And how can an entire room suddenly feel…
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The Anthropology of Intensity: Language, Culture, and Environment Kockelman Paul
What is it that makes a person blush when about to speak in front of a crowd? And how can an entire room suddenly feel restless and warm at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? What makes children immerse themselves in digging in dirt for hours?
Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a Mayan village in the cloud forests of Guatemala, this book provides a natural history of intensity in exceedingly tense times, through a careful analysis of ethnographic and linguistic evidence. The anthropology of intensity studies the manner in which humans encounter the continuous and gradable features of phenomena in social life and attempt to evaluate or convert them into discrete dimensions. It uses intensity as a way to reframe the discipline of Anthropology in the age of the Anthropocene, and rethinks classic work in the formal linguistic tradition from a culture-specific and