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Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes in relation to events and emergencies that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carrithers, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Colección:Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 2.
Temas:
Culture.
Social evolution.
Rhetoric.
Life.
Social problems.
Philosophical anthropology.
Cultural Evolution
Social Problems
Évolution sociale.
Rhétorique.
Problèmes sociaux.
Anthropologie philosophique.
social issues.
philosophical anthropology.
rhetoric (discipline)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Culture
Life
Philosophical anthropology
Rhetoric
Social evolution
Social problems
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes in relation to events and emergencies that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The con.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 184 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781845459246
1845459245

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