Michael Moerman
Talking CultureEthnography and Conversation AnalysisMichael Moerman'There is nothing else like it. . . . The best introduction to conversation analysis for an anthropologist and the only example of the full-scale employment of it in a non-Western culture.'--Charles O. Frake, Stanford University'Talking Culture tackles an important task--bringing conversation analysis and ethnography into a fruitful rapprochement. . . . [Moerman’s] insights into the construction of inequality between Thai peasants and officials provide us with a sense of just how fruitful the marriage of conversation analysis and ethnography can be.'--American AnthropologistSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookArgues that anyone--anthropologist, psychologist, or policeman--who uses what people say to find out what people think had better know how speech itself is organized.Conduct and Communication1988 | 212 pages | 6 x 9ISBN 978-0-8122-1246-4 | Paper | $26.50s | £17.50 World Rights | Anthropology
