The Culture of Coincidence: Accident and Absolute Liability in Huli Tapa dura - 1993

-Clarendon Press, 1993-. First edition. xvi+443 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. In this study, Laurence Goldman examines the ground between law, linguistics, and anthropology to provide a full-length ethnography on the grammar and pragmatics of the rarely acknolwedged or researched topic of accident. He challenges two long-standing preconceptions about tribal society - that there is absolute liability for deaths and that indigenous theories of misfortune lack concepts of pure accident or coincidence. Utilizing transcript case data from the Huli people of Papua New Guinea, Dr. Goldman explores the linguistic encoding of intentionality, causality, responsibility, and control to show how actors dispute in volitional (murder) or non-volitional (coincidence) idioms. He examines causativization, case marking, adverbs, why-questions, and verb choice to reveal how intentions, and not just consequences, are an inevitable focus of all conflict talk. He also examines the notion of "state of mind"… Leer más

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Physical description: xv, 443 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contains text in Huli. Contents: Introduction: A Plea for Accident -- 1. Accident and Absolute Liability in Anthropology -- 2. Talking With and Through Accident -- 3. Questions of Intent and the Intent of Questions -- 4. Structuring Volitional and Non-Volitional Models: Synergy and Ideology -- 5. Fate and Fortuity: Perspectives on 'Mind' and 'Person'. Subjects: Huli (Papua New Guinean people) Social conditions; Huli (Papua New Guinean people) Legal status, laws, etc.; Philosophy, Huli; Accidents (Philosophy); Accident law Papua New Guinea; Language; Law and anthropology; Murder; Liability; Disputes;… Leer más

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 443 pages; 22cm. Subjects: Law and anthropology. Language and culture Papua New Guinea. Huli (Papua New Guinean people) Legal status, laws, etc.

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