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Item Talking Culture: Women in the production of community in the northwest Amazon(American Anthropologist, 2003) Chernela, JanetTaking the Northwest Amazon of Brazil as its example, this article argues for the analytic concept of a “speech culture,” combining, but heuristically separating, speech practice and language ideology. In the Northwest Amazon, an ideology of language establishes an equivalence between linguistic performance and descent group belonging. In contrast to the fixed, normative notions of groupness, this article explores the dynamic construction of social relations through women’s ritualized wept greeting speech. In these interactions, linguistic differentiation is countered by the experience of a single speech act based upon shared principles with organized participation in and by different linguistic codes. Through the collaborative nature of the speech act a common ground is produced and revealed. The community in this sense emerges as a cultural artifact whose production is largely the work of women. Through these speech interactions—of similar sentiments and meanings across different linguistic codes—women of the Northwest Amazon construct a community of talk.Item Archaeology at the Talbot County Women's Club Lecture(2013) Leone, Mark P.; Woehlke, Stefan; Jenkins, TracyItem Twenty-Five Years of Archaeology in Annapolis: A Synthesis(2008-06-09) Leone, Mark P.; Cochran, Matthew D.; Palus, Matthew M.Item ADAN Symposium(2012-01-03) Leone, Mark P.Item New Philadelphia Archaeology: Report on the 2010 Excavation(2010) Agbe-Davis, AnnaItem New Philadelphia Archaeology: Report on the 2008 Excavation(2008) Fennell, ChristopherItem New Philadelphia Archaeology Report on the 2004 and 2005 Excavations(2005) Shackel, PaulItem New Philadelphia Archaeology: Race, Community, and the Illinois Frontier: Report on the 2008-2011 Excavations(2013) Agbe-Davis, Anna; Fay, KathrynItem New Philadelphia Archaeology Report on the 2004 Excavation(2004) Shackel, Paul; Christman, Carrie; Hargrave, Michael; Shroder, Marge