Culture and communication: A review essay

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THE MAN‐OF‐WORDS IN THE WEST INDIES: PERFORMANCE AND THE EMERGENCE OF CREOLE CULTURE. By Roger D. Abrahams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983; pp. xxxi + 203. $26.50; paper $12.95. PORTRAITS OF “THE WHITEMAN”: LINGUISTIC PLAY AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS AMONG THE WESTERN APACHE. By Keith Basso. Foreword by Dell Hymes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979; pp. xxi + 120. $24.95; paper $10.95. LET YOUR WORDS BE FEW: SYMBOLISM OF SPEAKING AND SILENCE AMONG SEVENTEENTH‐CENTURY QUAKERS. By Richard Bauman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983; pp. viii + 168. $34.50; paper $12.95. WAYS WITH WORDS: LANGUAGE, LIFE, AND WORK IN COMMUNITIES AND CLASSROOMS. By Shirley Brice Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983; pp. xiii + 421. $57.50; paper $18.95. TALKING STRAIGHT: DUGRI SPEECH IN ISRAELI SABRA CULTURE. By Tamar Katriel. Foreword by Dell Hymes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 145. $34.50. THE INVISIBLE CULTURE: COMMUNICATION IN CLASSROOM AND COMMUNITY ON THE WARM SPRINGS SAHAPTIN INDIAN RESERVATION. By Susan Urmston Philips. New York: Longman, 1983; pp. x + 147. $22.50; paper $14.95. KUNA WAYS OF SPEAKING: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE. By Joel Sherzer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983; pp. xii + 260. $25.00.

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