1 Ethnography as Counter-hegemony: Remarks on Epistemology
and Method 1
2 Obituary: Dell H. Hymes (1927–2009) 10
3 Ethnography and Democracy: Hymes’ Political
Theory of Language 15
4 Ethnopoetics as Functional Reconstruction: Dell Hymes’
Narrative View of the World 26
5 Grassroots Historiography and the Problem of Voice:
Tshibumba’s Histoire du Zaïre 42
6 Historical Bodies and Historical Space 62
7 Semiotic and Spatial Scope: Toward a Materialist Semiotics 77
8 Pierre Bourdieu and Language in Society 87
9 Combining Surveys and Ethnographies in the Study of Rapid
Social Change 99
10 Data Sharing as Entextualization Practice 112
11 Chronotopes, Scales and Complexity in the Study of Language
in Society 130
12 Marxism and Urban Culture 143
13 On Scope and Depth in Linguistic Ethnography: A Commentary 149
References Index