I: Language/Power in the Social Sciences; 1: Poetics, Politics, and Truth: An Invitation to Rhetorical Analysis; 2: Text/Context: The Rhetoric of the Social Sciences; II: Rhetoric and Truth in the Social Sciences; 3: The Interpretation of Disciplinary Writing; 4: No Anthro-Apologies, or Der(r)iding a Discipline; 5: Textual Form and Social Formation in Evans-Pritchard and Levi-Strauss; III: Social Science as a Political Discourse; 6: Communication, Persuasion, and The Establishment of Academic Disciplines: The Case of American Psychology; 7: Poetics and Politics in Ethnographic Texts: A View from the Colonial Ethnography of Afghanistan; 8: Listening for the Silences: The Rhetorics of the Research Field; 9: The Rhetoric of Efficiency: Applied Social Science as Depoliticization; 10: Fact, Fiction, and Factions: Scandal, Controversy, and "Filemaking" as Social Theory; IV: Challenges for the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences; 11: Human Needs and Control: A Foundation for Human Science and Critique; 12: Narration, Reason, and Community; 13: From Suspicion to Affirmation: Postmodernism and the Challenges of Rhetorical Analysis
