Tropological Thought and Action

Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-272-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

Reihe: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

¿Ivkovi¿, Marko

Živkovic, Marko

Pelkey, Jamin

Fernandez, James W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Aides Pensee: Tropology and Tropologic, An Introduction

James W. Fernandez

Chapter 1. Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture Theory

Ivo Strecker

Chapter 2. A Trope of Time. Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas

John H. Leavitt

Chapter 3. Dreams Inside-out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry

Marko Živkovic

Chapter 4. On Conversion: A Theory of Ruins

Joseba Zulaika

Chapter 5. Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer—“Witnessing a Shipwreck”: German Figurations in facing the Past to face the Future

Michael Carrithers

Chapter 6. An Apologia for Filthy Lucre

Gustav Peebles

Chapter 7. “Down the Garden Path.” On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in Understanding

James W. Fernandez

Chapter 8. “Sí Teanga na Muintire a Shlánós an Mhuintir”: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence

Steve Coleman

Chapter 9. Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post 9/11 New England

Bernard Bate

Chapter 10. Irony's Arrow: Launching Contraria in Chinese Linguaculture

Mary Scoggin

Chapter 11. The Tropes of Music

William O. Beeman

Chapter 12. Tactics For Working Anyway

Dale Pesmen

Chapter 13. Tropes, Frames and Powers

Terence S. Turner

Conclusion: Imaginative Leaps in Rhetoric Culture

Jamin Pelkey and Marko Živkovic

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fernandez, James W.
James W. Fernandez is a Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology.

Živkovic, Marko
Marko Živkovic is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton., and Director, Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility. His publications include Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Miloševic (Indiana, 2011).

Pelkey, Jamin
Jamin Pelkey is Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ryerson University, Toronto. His books include Dialectology as Dialectic (De Gruyter, 2011), and The Semiotics of X (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Marko Živkovic is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton., and Director, Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility. His publications include Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Miloševic (Indiana, 2011).