The Anthropology of Intensity: Language, Culture, and Environment

by Paul Kockelman

What counts as too close for comfort? How can an entire room suddenly feel restless at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? And who decides whether or not we are already in an age of unliveable extremes? The anthropology of intensity studies how humans encounter and communicate the continuous and gradable features of social and environmental phenomena in everyday interactions. Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a Mayan village in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009011073
• ISBN13: 9781009011075
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"