...society and culture, and this takes us to the heart of the deepest problem in the social disciplines: the dynamic interplay between the social, conventional,...creative, and emergent qualities of human existence. In the ethnography of speaking, no less than in other sectors of anthropology, the illumination and...

...is articulated in more general terms by anthropologists Bauman and Sherzer (1989). They claim that "the dynamic interplay between the social, conventional,...creative and emergent qualities of human existence" (p. xix) is a crucial problem in the social disciplines. These kindred perspectives suggest that our...

...which the Libyans lack here is an understanding of performance in its sense as social praxis, that is, "the dynamic interplay between the social, conventional,...and emergent qualities of human existence" (Bauman and Sherzer, 1989: XIX). The second aspect of performance which Bauman and Sherzer highlight go beyond...