Marko Živković is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton., and Director, Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility. His publications include Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milošević (Indiana, 2011).

“This book shows what is to be gained from thinking rhetorically about any particular problem, family of objects, or traditional discipline. It demonstrates the vitality of rhetoric in the social sciences as anything but a mere formalism or “linguistic turn”.” • Haun Saussy, University of Chicago

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Aides Pensee: Tropology and Tropologic, An IntroductionJames W. FernandezChapter 1. Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture TheoryIvo StreckerChapter 2. A Trope of Time. Twilight Swings across the Central HimalayasJohn H. LeavittChapter 3. Dreams Inside-out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic InquiryMarko ŽivkovićChapter 4. On Conversion: A Theory of RuinsJoseba ZulaikaChapter 5. Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer—“Witnessing a Shipwreck”: German Figurations in facing the Past to face the FutureMichael CarrithersChapter 6. An Apologia for Filthy LucreGustav PeeblesChapter 7. “Down the Garden Path.” On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in UnderstandingJames W. FernandezChapter 8. “Sí Teanga na Muintire a Shlánós an Mhuintir”: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and ImmanenceSteve ColemanChapter 9. Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post 9/11 New EnglandBernard BateChapter 10. Irony's Arrow: Launching Contraria in Chinese LinguacultureMary ScogginChapter 11. The Tropes of MusicWilliam O. BeemanChapter 12. Tactics For Working AnywayDale PesmenChapter 13. Tropes, Frames and PowersTerence S. TurnerConclusion: Imaginative Leaps in Rhetoric CultureJamin Pelkey and Marko ŽivkovićIndex

Marko Živković is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton., and Director, Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility. His publications include Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milošević (Indiana, 2011).

“This book shows what is to be gained from thinking rhetorically about any particular problem, family of objects, or traditional discipline. It demonstrates the vitality of rhetoric in the social sciences as anything but a mere formalism or “linguistic turn”.” • Haun Saussy, University of Chicago

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Aides Pensee: Tropology and Tropologic, An IntroductionJames W. FernandezChapter 1. Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture TheoryIvo StreckerChapter 2. A Trope of Time. Twilight Swings across the Central HimalayasJohn H. LeavittChapter 3. Dreams Inside-out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic InquiryMarko ŽivkovićChapter 4. On Conversion: A Theory of RuinsJoseba ZulaikaChapter 5. Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer—“Witnessing a Shipwreck”: German Figurations in facing the Past to face the FutureMichael CarrithersChapter 6. An Apologia for Filthy LucreGustav PeeblesChapter 7. “Down the Garden Path.” On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in UnderstandingJames W. FernandezChapter 8. “Sí Teanga na Muintire a Shlánós an Mhuintir”: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and ImmanenceSteve ColemanChapter 9. Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post 9/11 New EnglandBernard BateChapter 10. Irony's Arrow: Launching Contraria in Chinese LinguacultureMary ScogginChapter 11. The Tropes of MusicWilliam O. BeemanChapter 12. Tactics For Working AnywayDale PesmenChapter 13. Tropes, Frames and PowersTerence S. TurnerConclusion: Imaginative Leaps in Rhetoric CultureJamin Pelkey and Marko ŽivkovićIndex