Human Landscapes works out a pragmatist anthropology which the Classical Pragmatists
never put together in a comprehensive form—despite the many insights on the topic to be …

Three features of pragmatist thought remain empirically underdeveloped or insufficiently
explored: its call for a return to experience or recovery of concrete practices; its idea that …

Despite profound disagreement on many matters, anthropologists share a commitment to
the theoretical importance of human cultural versity. Those in the other human disciplines …

This volume is a set of my essays which discuss the nature of language in the context of a
human ethology. They attempt to extend the view of anthropology beyond the comparison of …

In reflecting on Emirbayer and Maynard's muscular and invigorating effort to link the
traditions of pragmatism and ethnomethodology, I mean to dwell on a thread that appears …

What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and
liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This …

Major figures in contemporary anthropology present a dialogic critique of ethnography.
Moving beyond sociolinguistics and performance theory, and inspired by Bakhtin and by …

Cultural psychology has multiple points of intersection with some of the central themes and
issues of philosophy, especially a philosophy that is not self-absorbed with problems purely …

How can we hold both public and personal worlds in the eye of a unified theory of meaning?
What ethnographic and theoretical possibilities do we create in the balance? Anthropology …

The relationship between everyday experience and culture-seen as a set of ideas, values, or
symbolic codes-has challenged social scientists and especially anthropologists, for more …