Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb, PhD, teaches at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Studies where she continues to develop courses on silence. She has done research with Waldensians and other minorities within religious groups. Her work has been published in journals such as American Anthropologist and Theory in Psychology, among others. She currently co-chairs the Advisory Council of the Anthropology Section, New York Academy of Sciences.

“The overall message and demonstration that silences are heterogeneous and essential formations within cultural meaning is an important contribution to scholarship on power.”  ·  American Ethnologist“Silence, says [the author], allows us to belief that the un-said is non-existent: hence the close relationship between silence and language and between silence and ideology. This research promises a radical renewal in the study and in the very way we think about the connection between silence and language.”  ·  Italian Review

• Introduction: Silence as the Currency of PowerMaria-Luisa Achino-LoebPART I: SILENCE, CONTEXT, AND CATEGORIES OF IDENTITYChapter 1. Silence in MusicWilliam O. BeemanChapter 2. Silence and the Imperatives of IdentityMaria-Luisa Achino-LoebChapter 3. Language Policies and the Erasure of Multilingualism in South AfricaSusan E. CookPART II: SILENCE AND POWER IN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVEChapter 4. Strategic Alterity and Silence in the Promotion of California’s Proposition 187 and of the Confederate Battle Flag in South CarolinaAnn E. KingsolverChapter 5. No/ma(i)ds: Silenced Subjects in Philippine MigrationPauline Gardiner BarberChapter 6. The Muzzled Saint: Racism, Cultural Censorship, and Religion in Urban BrazilRobin E. SheriffPART III: SILENCE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE OBSERVERChapter 7. Between Silences and Culture: A Partisan AnthropologyGerald SiderChapter 8. Silences of the FieldJames W. FernandezContributorsAuthor IndexSubject Index

Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb, PhD, teaches at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Studies where she continues to develop courses on silence. She has done research with Waldensians and other minorities within religious groups. Her work has been published in journals such as American Anthropologist and Theory in Psychology, among others. She currently co-chairs the Advisory Council of the Anthropology Section, New York Academy of Sciences.

“The overall message and demonstration that silences are heterogeneous and essential formations within cultural meaning is an important contribution to scholarship on power.”  ·  American Ethnologist“Silence, says [the author], allows us to belief that the un-said is non-existent: hence the close relationship between silence and language and between silence and ideology. This research promises a radical renewal in the study and in the very way we think about the connection between silence and language.”  ·  Italian Review

• Introduction: Silence as the Currency of PowerMaria-Luisa Achino-LoebPART I: SILENCE, CONTEXT, AND CATEGORIES OF IDENTITYChapter 1. Silence in MusicWilliam O. BeemanChapter 2. Silence and the Imperatives of IdentityMaria-Luisa Achino-LoebChapter 3. Language Policies and the Erasure of Multilingualism in South AfricaSusan E. CookPART II: SILENCE AND POWER IN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVEChapter 4. Strategic Alterity and Silence in the Promotion of California’s Proposition 187 and of the Confederate Battle Flag in South CarolinaAnn E. KingsolverChapter 5. No/ma(i)ds: Silenced Subjects in Philippine MigrationPauline Gardiner BarberChapter 6. The Muzzled Saint: Racism, Cultural Censorship, and Religion in Urban BrazilRobin E. SheriffPART III: SILENCE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE OBSERVERChapter 7. Between Silences and Culture: A Partisan AnthropologyGerald SiderChapter 8. Silences of the FieldJames W. FernandezContributorsAuthor IndexSubject Index

Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb, PhD, teaches at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Studies where she continues to develop courses on silence. She has done research with Waldensians and other minorities within religious groups. Her work has been published in journals such as American Anthropologist and Theory in Psychology, among others. She currently co-chairs the Advisory Council of the Anthropology Section, New York Academy of Sciences.

“The overall message and demonstration that silences are heterogeneous and essential formations within cultural meaning is an important contribution to scholarship on power.”  ·  American Ethnologist“Silence, says [the author], allows us to belief that the un-said is non-existent: hence the close relationship between silence and language and between silence and ideology. This research promises a radical renewal in the study and in the very way we think about the connection between silence and language.”  ·  Italian Review

• Introduction: Silence as the Currency of PowerMaria-Luisa Achino-LoebPART I: SILENCE, CONTEXT, AND CATEGORIES OF IDENTITYChapter 1. Silence in MusicWilliam O. BeemanChapter 2. Silence and the Imperatives of IdentityMaria-Luisa Achino-LoebChapter 3. Language Policies and the Erasure of Multilingualism in South AfricaSusan E. CookPART II: SILENCE AND POWER IN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVEChapter 4. Strategic Alterity and Silence in the Promotion of California’s Proposition 187 and of the Confederate Battle Flag in South CarolinaAnn E. KingsolverChapter 5. No/ma(i)ds: Silenced Subjects in Philippine MigrationPauline Gardiner BarberChapter 6. The Muzzled Saint: Racism, Cultural Censorship, and Religion in Urban BrazilRobin E. SheriffPART III: SILENCE AND THE PLIGHT OF THE OBSERVERChapter 7. Between Silences and Culture: A Partisan AnthropologyGerald SiderChapter 8. Silences of the FieldJames W. FernandezContributorsAuthor IndexSubject Index