This multidisciplinary study explores how people make sense of each other's actions.

How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of inten

Since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Indonesia has undergone a radical program of administrative decentralization and neoliberal reforms. In Meth

For more than thirty-five years, Thomas W. Dichter has worked in the field of international development, managing and evaluating projects for nongovernmental or

Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural pra