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100	1		_aKockelman, Paul, _eAuthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Anthropology of Intensity : _bLanguage, Culture, and Environment / _cPaul Kockelman, Yale University, Connecticut.
260			_c2022 _aLondon _bCambridge University Press
300			_a1 online resource
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"What is it that makes a person blush when about to speak in front of a crowd? What makes children immerse themselves in digging in dirt for hours? And how can an entire room suddenly feel restless and warm at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? 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. 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. 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 context-sensitive stance"--
650		0	_aAnthropological Linguistics
650		0	_aKekchi language _xComparison.
650		0	_aKekchi language _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aKekchi Indians _zGuatemala.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
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