Culture Rhetoric And The Vicissitudes Of Life

Author : Michael Carrithers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845459246

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Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life by Michael Carrithers Pdf

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 : Michael Carrithers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1845454294

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Culture, Rhetoric, and the Vicissitudes of Life by Michael Carrithers Pdf

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 : Robert Hariman,Ralph Cintron
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387473

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Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric by Robert Hariman,Ralph Cintron Pdf

This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown. Through an array of case studies, the book provides an account of change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.

Author : Christian Meyer,Felix Girke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857451132

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The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture by Christian Meyer,Felix Girke Pdf

“Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric” - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of seemingly dispersed individual actions and interactions? The contributors do not rely on rhetorical “text” alone but engage the situational, bodily, and often antagonistic character of cultural and communicative practices. The social situation itself is argued to be the fundamental site of cultural creation, as will-driven social processes are shaped by cognitive dispositions and shape them in turn. Drawing on expertise in a variety of disciplines and regions, the contributors critically engage dialogical approaches in their emphasis on how a view from rhetoric changes our perception of people's intersubjective and conjoint creation of culture.

Author : Anselma Gallinat
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785333033

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Narratives in the Making by Anselma Gallinat Pdf

Despite the three decades that have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical narrative of East Germany is hardly fixed in public memory, as German society continues to grapple with the legacies of the Cold War. This fascinating ethnography looks at two very different types of local institutions in one eastern German state that take divergent approaches to those legacies: while publicly funded organizations reliably cast the GDR as a dictatorship, a main regional newspaper offers a more ambivalent perspective colored by the experiences and concerns of its readers. As author Anselma Gallinat shows, such memory work—initially undertaken after fundamental regime change—inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy in the present.

Author : Marko Živković,Jamin Pelkey,James W. Fernandez
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800732735

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Tropological Thought and Action by Marko Živković,Jamin Pelkey,James W. Fernandez Pdf

From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.

Author : Jon Abbink,Shauna LaTosky
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209785

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Rhetoric and Social Relations by Jon Abbink,Shauna LaTosky Pdf

This volume explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the ambiguities and effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis. The elements of power, competition and political persuasion figure prominently. It is an accessible collection of studies, speaking to common issues and problems in social life, and shows the heuristic and often explanatory value of the rhetorical perspective.

Author : Michał Mokrzan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805395416

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Culture Figures by Michał Mokrzan Pdf

Ethnographic research, anthropological theory, and the understanding of the objects of inquiry, are co-created through figuration (using tropes and rhetorical figures) and techniques of persuasion. Delving into descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts spanning across classical monographs and recent texts in cultural anthropology, Culture Figures places rhetoric and rhetoricity as central to the discipline’s self-understanding. It focuses on how understandings of ‘culture’ and social life are shaped and conveyed in cultural anthropology through textual rhetoric. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie the creation of meanings or misunderstandings in society.

Author : Michael Ryan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1444320653

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Cultural Studies by Michael Ryan Pdf

This hands-on survey introduces students to the diverse fields that comprise cultural studies, from visual culture to popular music and new media. It can be used as a standalone text or is the perfect companion volume to Ryan's Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Provides a comprehensive overview of the field, from cyberculture and digital media to fashion and new formulations of gender identity Includes student exercises and activities for each chapter Teaches cultural analysis through practical examples and application Gives students across disciplines the tools to become practitioners of Cultural Studies and active cultural analysts The perfect companion volume to Ryan's Cultural Studies Anthology (2008)

Author : H. Russell Bernard,Clarence C. Gravlee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759120723

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Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology by H. Russell Bernard,Clarence C. Gravlee Pdf

The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field methods. Avoiding divisive debates over science and humanism, the contributors draw upon both traditions to explore fieldwork in practice. The second edition also reflects major developments of the past decade, including: the rising prominence of mixed methods, the emergence of new technologies, and evolving views on ethnographic writing. Spanning the chain of research, from designing a project through methods of data collection and interpretive analysis, the Handbook features new chapters on ethnography of online communities, social survey research, and network and geospatial analysis. Considered discussion of ethics, epistemology, and the presentation of research results to diverse audiences round out the volume. The result is an essential guide for all scholars, professionals, and advanced students who employ fieldwork.

Author : Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317397748

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De-Pathologizing Resistance by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Pdf

In a time of renewed interest in insurrectionary movements, urban protest, and anti-austerity indignation, the idea of resistance is regaining its relevance in social theory. De-Pathologizing Resistance re-examines resistance as a concept that can aid social analysis, highlighting the dangers of pathologising resistance as illogical and abnormal, or exoticising it in romanticised but patronising terms. Taking a de-pathologising and de-exoticising perspective, this book brings together insights from older and newer studies, the intellectual biographies of its contributing authors, and case studies of resistance in diverse settings, such as Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Mexico. From feminist studies to plaza occupations and anti-systemic uprisings, there is an emerging need to connect the analysis of contemporary protest movements under a broader theoretical re-examination. The idea of resistance—with all of its contradictions and its dynamism—provides such a challenging opportunity. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.

Author : Ivo A. Strecker,Stephen A. Tyler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845454634

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Culture & Rhetoric by Ivo A. Strecker,Stephen A. Tyler Pdf

"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."--Publisher's website.

Author : Benjamin Lamb-Books
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319313467

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Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery by Benjamin Lamb-Books Pdf

This book is an original application of rhetoric and moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements. It promotes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum over time. Deepening the affective dimension of cultural sociology, this work draws upon the social psychology of human emotion and interpersonal communication. Specifically, the book revolves around the topic of anger as a unique moral emotion that can be made to play crucial motivational and generative functions in protest. The chapters develop a new theory of the emotional power of protest rhetoric, including how abolitionist performances of heterodoxic racial and gender status imaginaries contributed to the escalation of the ‘sectional conflict’ over American slavery.

Author : Hannah Knox,Gemma John
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781685710521

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Speaking for the Social by Hannah Knox,Gemma John Pdf

Author : Francisco Cruces
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793633224

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Metropolitan Intimacies by Francisco Cruces Pdf

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents’ daily lives. An ethnography based on rich micro-stories, Cruces situates life poetics amongst other metropolitan processes in three major cities—Madrid, Montevideo, and Mexico City—to reveal the complex meanings around modern urbanity.