TALKING CULTURE

Talking Culture Ethnography and Conversation Analysis Michael 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 Anthropologist Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Argues 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.