Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-166) and index.

Ethnography as couter-hegemony: remarks on epistemology and method -- Obituary: Dell H. Hymes (1927-2009) -- Ethnography and democracy: hymes political theory of language -- Ethnopoetics as functional reconstruction: Dell Hymes narrative view of the world -- Grassroots historiography and the problem of voice: tshibumbas histoire du zare -- Historical bodies and historical space -- Semiotic and spatial scope: towards a materialist semiotics -- Pierre Bourdieu and language in society -- Combining surveys and ethnographies in the study of rapid social change -- Data sharing as entextualization practice -- Chronotopes, scales and complexity in the study of language in society -- Marxism and urban culture -- On scope and depth in linguistic ethnography: a commentary.