Briggs Charles L. (Editor). Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality

Oxford University Press, 1996. — vii, 248 pages. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-I9-508776-3: ISBN: 0-19-508777-1.This is the first collection of essays to focus primarily on the role of narrative in creating, sustaining, and mediating conflict. The contributors use differing perspectives on conflict and narrative to illuminate a wide range of disputes that emerge in a variety of settings and societies. The essays make theoretical and methodological contributions to our understanding of the intersection between narrative and conflict.Telling Troubles: Narrative, Conflict, and Experience / Donald Brenneis
The Trickster's Scattered Self / Ellen B. Basso
Embarrassment as Pride: Narrative Resourcefulness and Strategies of Normativity Among Cretan Animal-Thieves / Michael Herzfeld
Detective Stories at Dinnertime: Problem Solving Through Co-Narration / Elinor Ochs, Ruth C. Smith, and Carolyn E. Taylor
Ideological Dissonance in the American Legal System / William M. O'Barr and John M. Conley
Consensus and Dissent in U.S. Legal Opinions: Narrative Structure and Social Voices / Elizabeth Mertz
"We Want to Borrow Your Mouth": Tzotzil Marital Squabbles / John B. Haviland
Conflict, Language Ideologies, and Privileged Arenas of Discursive Authority in Warao Dispute Mediations / Charles L. Briggs