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Keane, Webb
Cultural anthropology, February 2002, Volume: 17, Issue: 1Journal Article
The project of religious conversion commonly proposes a more or less dramatic transformation of the person. To the extent that this project succeeds or fails, it may offer more general insights into the practices by which human subjects are constituted. Keane argues that language ideology, that is, people's assumptions about language, may be linked to ideas about material goods through their respective implications for the presumed nature of the human subject.
