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Dangerous Words:
Language and
Politics
in the Pacific
edited by
Donald Lawrence Brenneis
Fred R. Myers
1984
New York & London: New York
University Press
Reissued 1991
by Waveland Press
from 1980 Symposium
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- Introduction: Language and Politics in the
Pacific
- Fred R. Myers and Donald Lawrence
Brenneis
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- I. Egalitarian Polity: The Production of Contexts
of Understanding
1. "Wrapped Words": Poetry and Politics among the Wana
of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Jane Monnig Atkinson
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- 2. Straight Talk and Sweet Talk: Political Discourse
in an Occasionally Egalitarian Community
- Donald Lawrence Brenneis
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- 3. Who Speaks Here? Formality and the Politics of
Gender in Mendi, Highland Papua New Guinea
- Rena Lederman
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- 4. Putting Down Roots: Information in the Language of
Managalase Exchange
- William H. McKellin
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- II. Autonomy: Language, Objects, and the Limits of
Control
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- 5. Words That Are Moving: The Social Meanings of
Ilongot Verbal Art
- Michelle Z. Rosaldo
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- 6. From Words to Objects to Magic: "Hard Words" and
the Boundaries of Social Interaction
- Annette B. Weiner
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- 7. Of Symbolic Anchors and Sago Soup: The Rhetoric of
Exchange among the Chambri of Papua New Guinea
- Deborah Gewertz
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- III. Hierarchy: Speech and the "Taken-for-Granted"
Polity
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- 8. Lauga and Talanoaga: Two Speech Genres in a Samoan
Political Event
- Alessandro Duranti
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- 9. Three Perspectives on Role Distance in
Conversations between Tongan Nobles and Their
"People"
- George E. Marcus
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