Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Carrithers, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Series:Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 2.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Internal rhetorics : constituting selves in diaries and beyond / Jean Nienkamp
  • Story seeds and the inchoate / Michael Carrithers
  • The diffuse in testimonies / Stevan M. Weine
  • Medical rhetoric in the U.S. and Africa : the oncologist as Charon / Megan Biesele
  • 'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman' : foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon / Brigitte Nerlich
  • The palaestral aspect of rhetoric / F.G. Bailey
  • Ordeals of language / Ellen B. Basso
  • Inventions of hyperbolic culture / Ralph Cintron
  • Rhetoric in the moral order : a critique of tropological approaches to culture / James W. Fernandez.

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