Book contents
- The Anthropology of Intensity
- New Departures in Anthropology
- The Anthropology of Intensity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Intensity
- Part I Grounds
- One Comparative Grounds
- Two Causal Grounds
- Three Grounding Experience
- Four Grounding the Anthropocene
- Part II Tensors
- Part III Thresholds
- Conclusion: The Ecological Self
- References
- Index
One - Comparative Grounds
from Part I - Grounds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
- The Anthropology of Intensity
- New Departures in Anthropology
- The Anthropology of Intensity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Intensity
- Part I Grounds
- One Comparative Grounds
- Two Causal Grounds
- Three Grounding Experience
- Four Grounding the Anthropocene
- Part II Tensors
- Part III Thresholds
- Conclusion: The Ecological Self
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 1 is about the social and semiotic mediation of comparative grounds. In particular, the way people come to understand and alter the relative intensity of entities and events. Focusing on the multiple processes that mediate people’s understandings of landslides in a Mayan village in highland Guatemala, it shows the ways comparative grounds relate to communicative practices and social conventions. In addition, it highlights the political, economic, affective, and ecological stakes at work in such forms of mediation.
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- The Anthropology of IntensityLanguage, Culture, and Environment, pp. 27 - 52Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022