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Alessandro Duranti is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at UCLA and Director of the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture (CLIC). His main areas of interest are language as a cultural practice, performance and improvisation, agency and intentionality. He has carried out fieldwork in (Western) Samoa and the United States. His books include From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (1994), Linguistic Anthropology (1997), Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (2001), A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (2004), and Etnopragmatica (2007). He is the recipient of various awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, and the American Anthropological Association/Mayfield Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.