Finding Culture in Talk A Collection of Methods

by Quinn, Naomi

• ISBN13: 9781403969156
• ISBN10: 1403969159
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This edited collection presents a range of heretofore unpublished, unavailable methods for the systematic reconstruction of culture from interviews and other discourse. Authors set the design and evolution of their methods in the context of their own research projects, and draw general lessons about investigating culture through discourse. These methods have largely grown out of the work of the cultural models school, and represent the approaches of some of the very best methodologists in cultural anthropology today. An impetus for the volume has been inquiries from researchers, many of them graduate students, about how to conduct the kind of research that cultural models theorists do. This is not a linguistics book; unlike approaches to discourse analysis from linguistics, this volume focuses on culture, treating discourse as a medium especially rich in clues for cultural analysis, and hence a window into culture.

Author Biography

Naomi Quinn is Professor Emeritus at Duke University and a well-known psychological anthropologist. She has published many books and articles.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	viii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(34)
Naomi Quinn
How to Reconstruct Schemas People Share, From What They Say	35	(48)
Naomi Quinn
Some Methods for Studying Cultural Cognitive Structures	83	(22)
Roy D'Andrade
Uncovering Cultural Models of Gender from Accounts of Folktales	105	(52)
Holly F. Mathews
Finding Culture in Narrative	157	(46)
Jane H. Hill
Analyzing Discourse for Cultural Complexity	203	(40)
Claudia Strauss
``Good Enough'' Methods for Life-Story Analysis	243	(26)
Wendy Luttrell
Index	269