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James Wilce

Northern Arizona University, Anthropology, Faculty Member

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I am the author of the new linguistic anthropology textbook, Culture and Communication (Cambridge University Press, 2017). To learn more, visit this site: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/anthropology/linguistic-anthropology/culture-and-communication-introduction?format=PB#1hKK0cMRbScxI3gM.97

I am also the founder and currently co-coordinator of the M.A. programs in linguistic anthropology at Northern Arizona University. I encourage potential students to contact me at [email protected] or [email protected].
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Books by James Wilce

Culture and Communication: An Introduction

Culture and Communication: An Introduction, 2017

Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems

Language and Emotion (2009)

Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament (2009)

Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh (1998)

Papers by James Wilce

Tradition, Emotion, Healing, and the Sacred: Revivalist Lamenting in Finland in Relation to Three Authenticities.

Emotion Pedagogies: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter?

by James Wilce and Janina Fenigsen

This introductory essay defines " emotion pedagogies " by identifying their distinctive qualities... more This introductory essay defines " emotion pedagogies " by identifying their distinctive qualities—an inclusive embrace of emotions often presented in the form of lists of emotion words to be spoken as part of " I-messages; " treating emotions as teachable skill bundles, like other sets of skills conveyed along the model of formal schooling and thus involving a high degree of curricularization; and finally, the spread of emotion pedagogies as reflections and facilitators of Charles Taylor's " subjective turn, " Foucault's " subjectification, " and a unique self-managed and self-responsible neoliberal selfhood. We introduce each of the articles in this special issue and conclude with reflections on the transformative potential of emotion pedagogies. Tassä artikkelissa " tunnepedagogiikat " (emotion pedagogies) määritellään ilmiöksi, jonka ominaislaatuihin ja tavoitteisiin kuuluvat 1) tunteiden kattava hyväksyminen esimerkiksi tunnesanalistan avustamana, joita voidaan kayttää myös osana " minä-viestejä " ja 2) tunteiden käsittäminen taitoina, joita voi oppia ja opettaa muodollisessa koulutuksessa kuten muitakin taitoja. Tunne-pedagogiikkojen leviamistä ja suosiota käsitellään Charles Taylorin subjektiivisen käänteen ja Foucault'n subjektifikaation näkökulmista sekä heijastumina neoliberaalista tavasta nähdä minus uniikkina ja itsen päätöksistä riippuvaisena. Johdannossa esitellään myös kaikki erikoisnumeron artikkelit, ja lopuksi pohditaan tunnepedagogiikkojen transformatiivista potentiaalia.

Divining troubles, or divining troubles? Emergent and conflictual dimensions of Bangladeshi divination

Anthropological Quarterly, 2001

Divination is more dialogical than some diviners or anthropologists have made it appear. I analyz... more Divination is more dialogical than some diviners or anthropologists have made it appear. I analyze the transcript of one Bangladeshi divination event, comparing it with a dozen others performed by one diviner, Delwar, revealing how tenuously he manages to assign a single meaning to troubles, especially when clients openly compare his declarations with their intimate knowledge of those troubles. I explain how divinations could appear to be texts rather than emergent products of interaction. Diviners entextualize their declamations, doing their best to keep context at bay. Anthropologists who concentrate on textual products of divination-like Delwar's declamations-have made divination appear to enable groups to manage conflicts by transcending personal intentionality. Such representations elide troublesome interactive processes in which declamations emerge, meet potential rejection by clients, and are always vulnerable to recontextualization as clients might return to the diviner as events shift their perception of earlier divinations' accuracy. [divination, dialogism, entexualization, conflict, South Asia]

The Grammar of Politics and the Politics of Grammar: From Bangladesh to the United States

Like Lakoff (Chapter 17), James Wilce is also interested in the relationship between the form and... more Like Lakoff (Chapter 17), James Wilce is also interested in the relationship between the form and the function of language. He asks: What does grammar have to do with politics? While Wilce was doing fieldwork in Bangladesh, he got caught up in a moot (a sort of informal court proceeding) about who was at fault in a local dispute about an adolescent girl who was beaten. One form of a verb (known as a reciprocal or reduplicated verb) would assign responsibility equally to both parties. Another form of the same verb would attribute responsibility to one party only. How, by repeatedly using the reduplicated form of the verb, was this savvy orator able to influence the ways the community perceived and responded to the situation? How did the speaker influence the function of language by manipulating its form, or grammar? While the Bangladeshi case may seem foreign to you, it can help you to think more critically about exam ples closer to home. How, for instance, are women who have experienced violence characterized by the media? Are they portrayed as innocent victims or as participants who somehow "asked for it"? How do English speakers frame these women in one way rather than another? Is it through grammar (form, such as use of the passive or active voice), or is it through word choices (meaning or semantics), or both?

Emotion pedagogies: The growth and glocalization of psy/spiritual technologies of the self

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2000

Commentary on “Social Stress as a Formative Experience: Neurobiology of Conditioned Defeat” by Huhman

For several years, Huhman has been wrestling with the problems of social stress, and especiallyso... more For several years, Huhman has been wrestling with the problems of social stress, and especiallysocial defeat, as a stressor. These studies have all used Syrian hamsters. We can appreciate her motives in using these animals over others, particularly her desire to cause fewer injuries and therefore the methods she uses to induce aggression, particularly the fact that the sort of aggression she induces in them leads to few physical injuries. Huhman's is one of several chapters in this volume that approaches developmental psychobiology ...

Antiquity, Metaculture, and the Control of Lament

This chapter contains sections titled: Antiquity, and the Patina of AntiquityCase Studies in Lame... more This chapter contains sections titled: Antiquity, and the Patina of AntiquityCase Studies in Lament, Objectification, and ControlMore Links in the Chains Described: Toward Early ModernityAntiquity, and the Patina of AntiquityCase Studies in Lament, Objectification, and ControlMore Links in the Chains Described: Toward Early Modernity

The Grammar of Politics and the Politics of Grammar: From Bangladesh to the United States

A cultural approach to interpersonal communication: …, 2007

17 The Grammar of Politics and the Politics of Grammar: From Bangladesh to the United States Jame... more

Lament and Emotion

Crying Shame, 2008

Transforming Laments Performativity and Rationalization As Linguistic Ideologies

Languages of sentiment: cultural constructions of …, 1999

Page 45. Transforming Laments Performativity and Rationalization as Linguistic Ideologies James M... more

Crying Backward: Primitivist Representations of Lament

Crying Shame, 2008

Healing With Lament": Finnish Psychoculture and the Therapization of Finno-Ugrian Ritual

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2000

Language, emotion, power, and politics

Language and Emotion, 2009

The panhuman and the particular

Language and Emotion, 2009

Cultural Amnesia and the Objectification of Lament in Bangladesh

Crying Shame, 2008

Culture and Communication: An Introduction

Culture and Communication: An Introduction, 2017

Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems

Language and Emotion (2009)

Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament (2009)

Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh (1998)

Tradition, Emotion, Healing, and the Sacred: Revivalist Lamenting in Finland in Relation to Three Authenticities.

Emotion Pedagogies: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter?

by James Wilce and Janina Fenigsen

This introductory essay defines " emotion pedagogies " by identifying their distinctive qualities... more This introductory essay defines " emotion pedagogies " by identifying their distinctive qualities—an inclusive embrace of emotions often presented in the form of lists of emotion words to be spoken as part of " I-messages; " treating emotions as teachable skill bundles, like other sets of skills conveyed along the model of formal schooling and thus involving a high degree of curricularization; and finally, the spread of emotion pedagogies as reflections and facilitators of Charles Taylor's " subjective turn, " Foucault's " subjectification, " and a unique self-managed and self-responsible neoliberal selfhood. We introduce each of the articles in this special issue and conclude with reflections on the transformative potential of emotion pedagogies. Tassä artikkelissa " tunnepedagogiikat " (emotion pedagogies) määritellään ilmiöksi, jonka ominaislaatuihin ja tavoitteisiin kuuluvat 1) tunteiden kattava hyväksyminen esimerkiksi tunnesanalistan avustamana, joita voidaan kayttää myös osana " minä-viestejä " ja 2) tunteiden käsittäminen taitoina, joita voi oppia ja opettaa muodollisessa koulutuksessa kuten muitakin taitoja. Tunne-pedagogiikkojen leviamistä ja suosiota käsitellään Charles Taylorin subjektiivisen käänteen ja Foucault'n subjektifikaation näkökulmista sekä heijastumina neoliberaalista tavasta nähdä minus uniikkina ja itsen päätöksistä riippuvaisena. Johdannossa esitellään myös kaikki erikoisnumeron artikkelit, ja lopuksi pohditaan tunnepedagogiikkojen transformatiivista potentiaalia.

Divining troubles, or divining troubles? Emergent and conflictual dimensions of Bangladeshi divination

Anthropological Quarterly, 2001

Divination is more dialogical than some diviners or anthropologists have made it appear. I analyz... more Divination is more dialogical than some diviners or anthropologists have made it appear. I analyze the transcript of one Bangladeshi divination event, comparing it with a dozen others performed by one diviner, Delwar, revealing how tenuously he manages to assign a single meaning to troubles, especially when clients openly compare his declarations with their intimate knowledge of those troubles. I explain how divinations could appear to be texts rather than emergent products of interaction. Diviners entextualize their declamations, doing their best to keep context at bay. Anthropologists who concentrate on textual products of divination-like Delwar's declamations-have made divination appear to enable groups to manage conflicts by transcending personal intentionality. Such representations elide troublesome interactive processes in which declamations emerge, meet potential rejection by clients, and are always vulnerable to recontextualization as clients might return to the diviner as events shift their perception of earlier divinations' accuracy. [divination, dialogism, entexualization, conflict, South Asia]

The Grammar of Politics and the Politics of Grammar: From Bangladesh to the United States

Like Lakoff (Chapter 17), James Wilce is also interested in the relationship between the form and... more Like Lakoff (Chapter 17), James Wilce is also interested in the relationship between the form and the function of language. He asks: What does grammar have to do with politics? While Wilce was doing fieldwork in Bangladesh, he got caught up in a moot (a sort of informal court proceeding) about who was at fault in a local dispute about an adolescent girl who was beaten. One form of a verb (known as a reciprocal or reduplicated verb) would assign responsibility equally to both parties. Another form of the same verb would attribute responsibility to one party only. How, by repeatedly using the reduplicated form of the verb, was this savvy orator able to influence the ways the community perceived and responded to the situation? How did the speaker influence the function of language by manipulating its form, or grammar? While the Bangladeshi case may seem foreign to you, it can help you to think more critically about exam ples closer to home. How, for instance, are women who have experienced violence characterized by the media? Are they portrayed as innocent victims or as participants who somehow "asked for it"? How do English speakers frame these women in one way rather than another? Is it through grammar (form, such as use of the passive or active voice), or is it through word choices (meaning or semantics), or both?

Emotion pedagogies: The growth and glocalization of psy/spiritual technologies of the self

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2000

Commentary on “Social Stress as a Formative Experience: Neurobiology of Conditioned Defeat” by Huhman

For several years, Huhman has been wrestling with the problems of social stress, and especiallyso... more For several years, Huhman has been wrestling with the problems of social stress, and especiallysocial defeat, as a stressor. These studies have all used Syrian hamsters. We can appreciate her motives in using these animals over others, particularly her desire to cause fewer injuries and therefore the methods she uses to induce aggression, particularly the fact that the sort of aggression she induces in them leads to few physical injuries. Huhman's is one of several chapters in this volume that approaches developmental psychobiology ...

Antiquity, Metaculture, and the Control of Lament

This chapter contains sections titled: Antiquity, and the Patina of AntiquityCase Studies in Lame... more This chapter contains sections titled: Antiquity, and the Patina of AntiquityCase Studies in Lament, Objectification, and ControlMore Links in the Chains Described: Toward Early ModernityAntiquity, and the Patina of AntiquityCase Studies in Lament, Objectification, and ControlMore Links in the Chains Described: Toward Early Modernity

The Grammar of Politics and the Politics of Grammar: From Bangladesh to the United States

A cultural approach to interpersonal communication: …, 2007

17 The Grammar of Politics and the Politics of Grammar: From Bangladesh to the United States Jame... more

Lament and Emotion

Crying Shame, 2008

Transforming Laments Performativity and Rationalization As Linguistic Ideologies

Languages of sentiment: cultural constructions of …, 1999

Page 45. Transforming Laments Performativity and Rationalization as Linguistic Ideologies James M... more

Crying Backward: Primitivist Representations of Lament

Crying Shame, 2008

Healing With Lament": Finnish Psychoculture and the Therapization of Finno-Ugrian Ritual

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2000

Language, emotion, power, and politics

Language and Emotion, 2009

The panhuman and the particular

Language and Emotion, 2009

Cultural Amnesia and the Objectification of Lament in Bangladesh

Crying Shame, 2008

For Crying Out Loud: What Is Lament Anyway?

Crying Shame, 2008

Mourning Becomes the Electron's Age: Lamenting Modernity(ies)

Crying Shame, 2008

Diglossia Revisited: Language Boundaries and the Sociohistorical Emergence of Meaning

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2000

How Shame Spreads in Modernity

Crying Shame, 2008

Catherine Lutz & Lila Abu-Lughod (eds.), Language and the politics of emotion. (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction 1.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. vii + 217

Language in Society, 1992

Add Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... Cathe... more Add Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... Catherine Lutz & Lila Abu-Lughod (eds.), Language and the politics of emotion. (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction 1.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. vii + 217. ... Catherine Lutz & Lila Abu-Lughod (eds.), Language and the politics of emotion. (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction 1.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. vii + 217. ... Catherine Lutz & Lila Abu-Lughod (eds.), Language and the politics of emotion. (Studies in Emotion ...

NAU medical anthropology flyer

List of recent linguistic anthropology MA theses by Wilce's advisees at Northern Arizona University

Current and former NAU MA Projects in Language Revitalization and Beyond

All MA Projects Chaired by Wilce

NAU Linguistic Anthropology MA Program Flyer

offers one of the country's best anthropology MA programs. Our MA program in linguistic anthropol... more offers one of the country's best anthropology MA programs. Our MA program in linguistic anthropology provides students with opportunities for scholarly development and applied work grounded in strong theoretical and methodological foundations. Strengths of the program include an emphasis on professionalization and on developing skills in the use of technology and making presentations. For example, ANT 514 (Linguistic Anthropology Lab) provides experience in collecting audiovisual data, the use of technology in editing and transcribing those data, and a setting in which students regularly present their emerging analyses and arguments.