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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Battaglia, Debbora
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
Self > Social aspects.
Self > Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnopsychology.
Ethnopsychology
Moi (Psychologie) > Aspect social.
Moi (Psychologie) > Études transculturelles.
Ethnopsychologie.
ethnopsychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
Self.
Psychology.
Social Sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Cross-cultural studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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