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Rhetorics of self-making /

This book advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood in three ways: First, it argues that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, it challenges the perv...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Battaglia, Debbora
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
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Table des matières:
  • Problematizing the self: a thematic introduction / Debbora Battagli
  • Self-exposure as theory: the double mark of the male Jew / Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyari
  • On eccentricity / George E. Marcu
  • If you have the advertisement you don't need the product / Roy Wagne
  • On practical nostalgia: self-prospecting among urban trobrianders / Debbora Battagli
  • Nostalgia and the new genetics / Marilyn Strather
  • Production values: indigenous media and the rhetoric of self-determination / Faye Ginsbur.