{"product_id":"monologic-imagination-paperback","title":"Monologic Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatt Tomlinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJulian Millie\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently \"dialogical.\" No speaker speaks alone, because our words are always partly shaped by our interactions with others, past and future. Moreover, we never fashion ourselves entirely by ourselves, but always do so in concert with others. Bakhtin thus decisively reshaped modern understandings of language and subjectivity. And yet, the contributors to this volume argue that something is potentially overlooked with too close a focus on dialogism: many speakers, especially in charged political and religious contexts, work energetically at crafting monologues, single-voiced statements to which the only expected response is agreement or faithful replication. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from the United States, Iran, Cuba, Indonesia, Algeria, and Papua New Guinea, the authors argue that a focus on \"the monologic imagination\" gives us new insights into languages' political design and religious force, and deepens our understandings of the necessary interplay between monological and dialogical tendencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Tomlinson\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University. Since the mid-1990s, he has conducted research on culture, language, and ritual in Pacific Islands societies. He is the coeditor of several volumes and the author of two books, \u003cem\u003eIn God's Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity \u003c\/em\u003e(2009) and \u003cem\u003eRitual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance \u003c\/em\u003e(Oxford, 2014). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulian Millie\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology at Monash University. He has completed research on Islamic practice in Indonesia and on the genres of Islamic culture in the region. He has published two books: \u003cem\u003eBidasari: Jewel of Malay Muslim Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) and \u003cem\u003eSplashed by the Saint: Ritual Reading and Islamic Sanctity in West Java\u003c\/em\u003e (2009).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 08, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47326886723833,"sku":"9780190652814","price":87.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dnlsVVNObXlacWNXSk5adUJYVDluUT09.webp?v=1769573078","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/monologic-imagination-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}