Silence: The Currency Of Power
by Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb /
2014 / English / PDF
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This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It
argues that only by studying how silence works-how it is
implicated in the construction of meaning-can we arrive at the
elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the
currency of power by delineating the margins or what we perceive
and through a sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the
service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid
of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried
by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic
behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the
construction of anthropological subjects and texts.
This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It
argues that only by studying how silence works-how it is
implicated in the construction of meaning-can we arrive at the
elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the
currency of power by delineating the margins or what we perceive
and through a sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the
service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid
of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried
by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic
behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the
construction of anthropological subjects and texts.
