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Rhetorical Emergence of Culture
Av Christian Meyer, Felix Girke
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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“Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric” - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of …
Economic Persuasions
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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The volume features contributions from an impressive array of scholars operating at the borders between anthropology, sociology, and economics, and offers much to interest scholars from each of these disciplines. JRAI As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early …
Culture and Rhetoric
Av Ivo Strecker, Stephen Tyler
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are – rhetorical constructs. These senior, …
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
Häftad, 2012
454 kr
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Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, …
Astonishment and Evocation
The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology
Inbunden, 2013
1880 kr
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All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book …
Chiasmus and Culture
Av Boris Wiseman, Anthony Paul
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for performing a pirouette of syntax and thought. Going beyond traditional rhetoric, this volume is …
Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric
The Texture of Political Action
Av Robert Hariman, Ralph Cintron
Inbunden, 2015
1880 kr
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This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative …
Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric
The Texture of Political Action
Av Robert Hariman, Ralph Cintron
Häftad, 2020
527 kr
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This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative …
Rhetoric and Social Relations
Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation
Inbunden, 2021
1921 kr
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This volume explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the ambiguities and effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis. The elements of …
Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
Av Marko Živković, Jamin Pelkey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1921 kr
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From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of …
Culture Figures
A Rhetorical Reading of Anthropology
Inbunden, 2024
1921 kr
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Ethnographic research, anthropological theory, and the understanding of the objects of inquiry, are co-created through figuration (using tropes and rhetorical figures) and techniques of persuasion. Delving into descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts spanning across classical monographs and …
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
Inbunden, 2009
1880 kr
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Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, …
Economic Persuasions
Inbunden, 2009
1921 kr
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As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the “transition”—the deepening problems of …
Culture and Rhetoric
Av Ivo Strecker, Stephen Tyler
Inbunden, 2009
1861 kr
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While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are - rhetorical constructs. These senior, …
