Scale : Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life /

"Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies to history to love. We know scale by many names, and through many familiar antinomies: 'local' and 'global, ' 'micro' and 'macro, ' 'events' and the 'longue du...

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Other Authors: Lempert, Michael (Editor), Carr, E. Summerson, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Projecting presence : aura and oratory in William Jennings Bryan's presidential races / Richard Bauman
  • Interaction rescaled : how Buddhist debate became a diasporic pedagogy / Michael Lempert
  • Shrinking indigenous language in the Yukon / Barbra Meek
  • Scale-making : comparison and perspective as ideological projects / Susan Gal
  • Balancing the scales of justice in Tonga / Susan U. Philips
  • Interscaling awe, deescalating disaster / E. Summerson Carr and Brooke Fisher
  • Scaling red and the horror of trademark / Constantine V. Nakassis
  • Semiotic vinification and the scaling of taste / Michael Silverstein
  • Going upscale : scales and scale-climbing as ideological projects / Judith T. Irvine.