Precedence in Perspective
@inproceedings{Fox2009PrecedenceIP,
title={Precedence in Perspective},
author={J. Fox},
year={2009}
}The use of precedence in Austronesian ethnography The concept of precedence defines a relative relationship. It is significant not in its focus on this single relationship but rather in the possibility it offers for a concatenation of relationships, thus producing an ‘order of precedence’ in which relations are recursively arrayed asymmetrically one to another. As such, precedence involves the conjunction of two analytic categories: recursive complementarity and categorical asymmetry (Fox 1994… CONTINUE READING
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