Freedoms of Speech : Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power / Matei Candea

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Anthropologies of Free Speech -- Part One: Traditions and Comparisons -- 1 Comparing Freedoms: "Liberal Freedom of Speech" in Frontal and Lateral Perspective -- 2 When Speech Isn't Free: Varieties of Metapragmatic Struggle -- 3 Speaking for Oneself: Language Reform and the Confucian Legacy in Late Colonial Vietnam -- 4 Risking Speech in Islam -- 5 Ten-and-a-Half Seconds of God's Silence: Mormon Parrhesia in the Time of Donald Trump -- 6 Fascism, Real or Stuffed: Ordinary Scepticism at Mussolini's Grave -- 7 The Imaginative Power of Language in the Vacated Space of "Free Speech" in Putin-Era Russia -- Part Two: Extending the Politics of Free Speech -- 8 Designing Limits on Public Speaking: The Case of Hungary -- 9 Expression Is Transaction: Talk, Freedom, and Authority when Egalitarians Embrace the State -- 10 Dissent, Hierarchy, and Value Creation: Liberalism and the Problem of Critique -- 11 The People's Radio between Populism and Bullshit -- 12 Environments for Expression on Palestine: Fields, Fear, and the Politics of Movement -- Part Three: Narrating, Witnessing, Troubling -- 13 Freedom of Speech in Jeju Shamanism -- 14 Truth of War: Immersive Fiction Reading and Public Modes of Remembrance in an English Literary Society -- 15 As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy, and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising -- 16 Historical Vertigo: Art, Censorship, and the Contested History of Bangladesh -- Part Four: Therapies, Individual and Collective -- 17 Free Speech, without Listening? Liberalism and the Problem of Reception -- 18 An American Canard: The Freedom of (Therapeutic) Speech -- 19 Therapeutic Politics and the Performance of Reparation: A Dialogical Approach to Mental Health Care in the UK.

20 Secrecy, Curse, Psychiatrist, Saint: Scandals of Sexuality and Censorship in Global/Indian Publics -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

This collection brings together leading anthropologists and fresh new voices in the discipline to consider freedoms of speech with a wide comparative lens.

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