Linguistic Anthropology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
"Once in a while a book is published that defines and shapes the content of a discipline.  Duranti's Linguistic Antrhopology is one of those books. Rooted in a profound knowledge of historical and current scholarship in both linguistics and anthropology...the author's discourse provides a clear manifesto for linguistic anthropology as a full-grown discipline of its own.   ...instructors for linguistic anthropology classes will find this book extremely valuable.  I know of no other text that is so well -documented about issues, theories, and methods in linguistic anthropology both synchronically and diachronically.  ...the book is very coherent theoretically...it proposes a clear, distinctive way of doing linguistic anthropology. ...anybody who intends to conduct research in this discipline will find this to be an extremely valuable resource. "    Giovanni Bennardo, American Anthropology"Linguistic anthropology should be of great help in opening up this dynamic branch of research to a broader audience."    language in Society