Rhetoric and Social Relations

Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-977-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 661 g

Reihe: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

This volume explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the ambiguities and effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis. The elements of power, competition and political persuasion figure prominently. It is an accessible collection of studies, speaking to common issues and problems in social life, and shows the heuristic and often explanatory value of the rhetorical perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abbink, Jon

Latosky, Shauna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

PART I: POSITIONING

Introduction: Rhetoric in Social Relations

Jon Abbink and Shauna LaTosky

Chapter 1. Embodied Chiasmus: From Alienation to Participation

Jamin Pelkey

PART II: BONDING

Chapter 2. Kinship: Mother and Child of Rhetoric

Jean Lydall

Chapter 3. What Do Kinship Terms Do? The Dual Life of Kinship Rhetoric in English-Written Hunter-Gatherers’ Ethnography

Nurit Bird-David

Chapter 4. The Rhetoric of Kinship: ‘Doing Kinship’ – Some Mambila Cases

David Zeitlyn

Chapter 5. Establishing Ethos: The Rhetorical Work of Bondfriendship

Felix Girke

Chapter 6. The Rhetorics of Purging among the Mun (Mursi) of Southern Ethiopia

Shauna LaTosky

Chapter 7. The Art of Playing Tuql: How to ‘Make’ Love in Egypt

Steffen Strohmenger

Chapter 8. Enculturation as Rhetorical Practice

Ivo Strecker

PART III: CONTESTATION

Chapter 9. Sweet Tongues: The Rhetoric of Politeness in Damascus

Anke Reichenbach

Chapter 10. Words and Images: A Cross-cultural View on Swearing as a Rhetorical Strategy in Social Relations

Susan du Mesnil de Rochemont

Chapter 11. Flavouring the Nation: The Rhetoric of Nutrition Policies in Ethiopia

Valentina Peveri

Chapter 12. Power Relations in Suri: Public Speech and Action

Jon Abbink

Chapter 13. Inducement to Action and Change in Attitude: Coaching in the Light of Rhetorical Anthropology

Michal Mokrzan

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Abbink, Jon
Jon Abbink is a research professor of Politics and Governance in Africa (Political Anthropology) at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. Recent publications include The Anthropology of Elites (co-edited, Palgrave, 2012), Reconfiguring Ethiopia (co-edited, Routledge, 2013), a co-authored monograph, Suri Orature, on the Suri people (Köppe Verlag, 2014), and the edited volume The Environmental Crunch in Africa (Palgrave, 2018).

Latosky, Shauna
Shauna LaTosky teaches cultural anthropology at Thompson Rivers University. She published The Predicaments of Mursi (Mun) Women in Ethiopia’s Changing World (Köppe Verlag, 2013), and co-edited Writing in the Field (Lit Verlag, 2013).

Jon Abbink is a research professor of Politics and Governance in Africa (Political Anthropology) at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. Recent publications include The Anthropology of Elites (co-edited, Palgrave, 2012), Reconfiguring Ethiopia (co-edited, Routledge, 2013), a co-authored monograph, Suri Orature, on the Suri people (Köppe Verlag, 2014), and the edited volume The Environmental Crunch in Africa (Palgrave, 2018).