Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life / edited by Michael Carrithers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carrithers, Michael.

Series:

Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 2.

Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Social evolution.

Rhetoric.

Life.

Social problems.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The contributors

Contents:

Internal rhetorics : constituting selves in diaries and beyond / Jean Nienkamp

Story seeds and the inchoate / Michael Carrithers

The diffuse in testimonies / Stevan M. Weine

Medical rhetoric in the U.S. and Africa : the oncologist as Charon / Megan Biesele

'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman' : foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon / Brigitte Nerlich

The palaestral aspect of rhetoric / F.G. Bailey

Ordeals of language / Ellen B. Basso

Inventions of hyperbolic culture / Ralph Cintron

Rhetoric in the moral order : a critique of tropological approaches to culture / James W. Fernandez.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612627835

9780857458162

0857458167

9781282627833

128262783X

9781845459246

1845459245

OCLC:

645100922