Culture and Rhetoric

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-665-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 393 g

Reihe: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strecker, Ivo

Tyler, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

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 Oesterreich

Chapter 4. Listening culture

Daniel Gross

Chapter 5. Practice of rhetoric, rhetoric of practice

Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli

Chapter 6. Chiastic thought and culture: A reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Boris Wiseman

Chapter 7. When fair is foul and foul is fair: Lessons from Macbeth

Anthony Paul

PART II: FIGURATION - THE PERSUASIVE POWER OF DEEDS AND TROPES

Chapter 8. Rhetoric truth and the work of trope

Alan Rumsey

Chapter 9. Figuration, a common ground of rhetoric and anthropology

Philippe-Joseph Salazar

Chapter 10. Tropical foundations and foundational tropes of culture

James W. Fernandez

Chapter 11. Embodied rhetorics of earnest belief

Michael Herzfeld

Chapter 12. An epistemological query

Pierre Maranda

Chapter 13. Beyond the unsaid: Transcending language through language

Paul Friedrich

Chapter 14. Future imperfect: Imagining rhetoric culture

Robert Hariman

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Strecker, Ivo
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 Ethnographic Chiasmus. Essays on Culture, Conflict and Rhetoric (2010).

Tyler, Stephen
Stephen Tyler (1932-2020) was Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He conducted fieldwork with the Koya tribe in the south of India and co-founded the International Rhetoric Culture Project in 1998. His was editor of Cognitive Anthropology (1969), and author of India: An Anthropological Perspective (1973); The Said and the Unsaid (1978); and The Unspeakable (1987).

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 Ethnographic Chiasmus. Essays on Culture, Conflict and Rhetoric (2010).