Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps, family trees, figures, and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transcriptions
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- 1 On being long in company
- 2 A boy finds his mama(s)
- 3 The closeness of strangers
- 4 Embracing talk
- 5 Lines of vision
- 6 The hand of play
- 7 Ways with time and words
- 8 Shaping the mainstream
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Ethnography as biography and autobiography
- Appendix B On methods of social history and ethnography
- Notes to text
- References
- Index
Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps, family trees, figures, and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transcriptions
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- 1 On being long in company
- 2 A boy finds his mama(s)
- 3 The closeness of strangers
- 4 Embracing talk
- 5 Lines of vision
- 6 The hand of play
- 7 Ways with time and words
- 8 Shaping the mainstream
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Ethnography as biography and autobiography
- Appendix B On methods of social history and ethnography
- Notes to text
- References
- Index
Summary
“Never ask her to give you a recipe for apple pie. She’ll take you back to the Garden of Eden.”
A friend once described me in this way. She explained: “Beginning-to-end, start-to-finish: the long run matters to you.”
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- Words at Work and PlayThree Decades in Family and Community Life, pp. 1 - 7Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012