Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Published by Berghahn Books 2009

Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Edited by: Michael Carrithers

Volume 2 in the series Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459246

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About this book

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 bring expertise from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the volume’s wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.

Author / Editor information

Michael Carrithers is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. He is author of a biography of the Buddha and of Why Humans Have Cultures (Oxford University Press, 1992). He has also written about Buddhist forest monks and of Jainism in India. At present he is researching rhetoric and public culture in East Germany.

Reviews

“…a fine collection of essays illuminating situation uses of narratives, images and tropes that are not contemplated as ‘explanations’ but as cultural resources mobilized to impart meaning and order when facing concrete circumstances…a great variety of excellent analyses going beyond the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology…this book is a welcome contribution and the project I belongs to offers one of the most important shifts in European anthropology in the coming decade.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Michael Carrithers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Internal Rhetorics Constituting Selves in Diaries and Beyond Jean Nienkamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
2. Story Seeds and the Inchoate Michael Carrithers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. The Diffuse in Testimonies Stevan M. Weine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. Medical Rhetoric in the U.S. and Africa The Oncologists as Charon Megan Biesele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5. ‘As if Goya Was on Hand as a Marksman’ Foot and Mouth Disease as a Rhetorical and Cultural Phenomenon Brigitte Nerlich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. The Palaestral Aspect of Rhetoric F. G. Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
7. Ordeals of Language Ellen B. Basso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8. Inventions of Hyperbolic Culture Ralph Cintron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
9. Rhetoric in the Moral Order A Critique of Tropological Approaches to Culture James W. Fernandez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 196
Keywords: Theory and Methodology; Cultural Studies (General)

eBook

Published: June 1, 2009
ISBN: 9781845459246