Culture and Rhetoric

Ivo Strecker, Stephen Tyler (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

255 Seiten

2009
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-463-0 (ISBN)

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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, international scholars explore the complex relationships between culture and rhetoric arguing that just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric. This intersection constitutes the central theme of the first part of the book, while the second is dedicated to the study of figuration as a common ground of rhetoric and anthropology. The book offers a compelling range of theoretical reflections, historical vistas, and empirical investigations, which aim to show how people talk themselves and others into particular modalities of thought and action, and how rhetoric and culture, in this way, are co-emergent. It thus turns a new page in the history of academic discourse by bringing two disciplines - anthropology and rhetoric - together in a way that has never been done before.

Ivo Strecker is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and co-founder of the International Rhetoric Culture Project in 1998. His empirical work has dealt with Hamar ethnography, and his theoretical work has focused on symbolism, ritual and rhetoric. He is (together with Jean Lydall) author of The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia (1979); The Social Practice of Symbolization (1988); and Essays on Culture, Conflict and Rhetoric (2009). Stephen Tyler is Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He has done fieldwork with the Koya tribe in the south of India and co-founded the International Rhetoric Culture Project in 1998. His major publications include Cognitive Anthropology (editor, 1969); India: An Anthropological Perspective (1973); The Said and the Unsaid (1978); and The Unspeakable (1987).

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Ivo Strecker and Stephen Tyler Part I: The Chiasm of Rhetoric and Culture Chapter 1. The Rhetoric Culture Project Stephen Tyler and Ivo Strecker Chapter 2. Precursors of Rhetoric Culture Theory Christian Meyer Chapter 3. Homo Rhetoricus Peter L. Oesterreich Chapter 4. Listening Culture Daniel M. Gross Chapter 5. Practice of Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Practice Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli Chapter 6. Chiastic Thought and Culture: A Reading of Claude Levi-Strauss Boris Wiseman Chapter 7. When Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair: Lessons from Macbeth Anthony Paul

Reihe/Serie	Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; v. 1
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-84545-463-4 / 1845454634
ISBN-13	978-1-84545-463-0 / 9781845454630
Zustand	Neuware