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Eloquence in Trouble

By Wilce, James M.

Eloquence in Trouble

By Wilce, James M.

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This is a study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how those complaints are connected to and reveal the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his/her relation to power. The book also focuses on the current troubles besetting genres of complaint in Bangladesh. Wilce provides the first ethnography of Bangla communication, the first semiotically-oriented book on greater Bengal, and the first attempt to apply critical medical anthropology to Bangladesh.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
324
Release Date:
1998-12-03
Publication Date:
1998-10-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195106873
ISBN13:
9780195106879
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
678 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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