
Culture and Rhetoric
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"This collection of essays draws in some of the influential thinkers in anthropological rhetoric from both Europe and America. What is new here is the focus on the chiasm of rhetoric and culture, the mutual constitution of persuasive means and the larger cultures that provide the values about which we are to be persuaded." ? Bernard Bate, Yale University"Among them, the contributors put the study of culture on a new, well-worked-out foundation in rhetoric. Their efforts reward close attention." ? Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics
"Although I retain from classical British social anthropology a distaste for the word 'culture' I think that Culture and Rhetoric is a very timely book because the future of the human economy is for people to trade at distance, not just things, but what they do for each other. Maybe 'culture' expresses best the infinite variety of what that entails." ? Keith Hart, Goldsmiths College, London
"Classical rhetoric viewed its calling as one both analytical and critical within a polity that aspired to be a republic. My reading of Culture and Rhetoric suggests that contemporary rhetoricians and anthropologists will now have to substitute the ancient republic with the oikumene, the whole habitation of sentient beings on this globe." ? Michael Carrithers, Durham University
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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 Levi-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
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