Eloquence in Trouble - The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh

Zusatztext The drama (and melodrama) of rural Bangladeshi life are evoked here with considerable sensitivity to how intensly rural society is bound up with social performance. Klappentext This is a study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how those complaints are connected to and reveal the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his/her relation to power. The book also focuses on the current troubles besetting genres of complaint in Bangladesh. Wilce provides the first ethnography of Bangla communication, the first semiotically-oriented book on greater Bengal, and the first attempt to apply critical medical anthropology to Bangladesh. Zusammenfassung A study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how they are connected to and reveal the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his/her relation to power. It also focuses on the troubles besetting genres of complaint in Bangladesh.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James M. Wilce, Wilce James M.
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.01.1999
• EAN: 9780195106879
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510687-9
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Anthropologi; Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Cultural Studies, Medicine, MEDICAL / General, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Bangladesh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Medicine and Nursing, Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages