Rhetorics Of Self Making

Author : Debbora Battaglia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520915251

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Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world. Contributions cover a broad range of topics—from the development of the eccentric self to the ritual circumcision of Jewish males.

Author : Debbora Battaglia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520087996

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"An exceptionally stimulating work. . . . Likely to become a classic."—Donald Brenneis, Pitzer College

Author : Ernest Stromberg
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822973010

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American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance by Ernest Stromberg Pdf

The book examines the complex and sophisticated efforts of American Indian writers and orators to constructively engage an often hostile and resistant white audience through language and other symbol systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780761905059

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Sourcebook on Rhetoric by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Jasinski
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761905049

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Sourcebook on Rhetoric by James Jasinski Pdf

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Author : James V. Catano
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0809323958

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Ragged Dicks by James V. Catano Pdf

Corporate magnates of the late 20th century as exemplified by Lee Iacocca, and industrial barons on the Gilded Age such as Andrew Carnegie comprise the brotherhood Catano (English, Louisiana State U.) calls Ragged Dicks. He examines their own accounts of themselves to reveal how the rich take personal credit for their success. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Maria Załęska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443834810

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Rhetoric and Politics by Maria Załęska Pdf

Paradoxically, the term 'rhetoric' functions nowadays both as a name of an antique, even obsolete framework of research and as a fashionable buzzword that entails virtually any form of persuasive communication. Reflecting a growing scholarly interest in political discourses, this volume offers systematic, theoretically grounded insights into the flow of persuasion that constitutes politics today. Authors combine the interest in rhetoric within politics with different disciplinary orientations ...

Author : Jean Nienkamp
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0809390159

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Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-persuasion by Jean Nienkamp Pdf

Author : Anne E. Becker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812290240

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Body, Self, and Society by Anne E. Becker Pdf

Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own.

Author : Karin Barber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139467520

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The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics by Karin Barber Pdf

What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies.

Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521795524

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The Idea of Europe by Anthony Pagden Pdf

Discusses how a distinctive 'European' identity has grown over the centuries, especially with the EU.

Author : Dana Anderson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 157003706X

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Identity's Strategy by Dana Anderson Pdf

This work is an investigation into the persuasive techniques inherent in presentations of identity. strategies involved in the expression of personal identity. Drawing on Kenneth Burke's Dialectic of Constitutions, Anderson analyzes conversion narratives to illustrate how the authors of these autobiographical texts describe dramatic changes in their identities as a means of influencing the beliefs and action of their readers. capacity for self-understanding and self-definition. Communicating this self-interpretation is inherently rhetorical. Expanding on Burkean concepts of human symbol use, Anderson works to parse and critique such inevitable persuasive ends of identity constitution. Anderson examines the strategic presentation of identity in four narratives of religious, sexual, political, and mystical conversions: Catholic social activist Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness, political commentator David Brock's Blinded by the Right, Deirdre McCloskey's memoir of transgender transformation, Crossing, and the well-known Native American text Black Elk Speaks. Mapping the strategies in each, Anderson points toward a broader understanding of how identity is made - and how it is made persuasive.

Author : A. Karam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230371590

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Women, Islamisms and the State by A. Karam Pdf

The book provides theoretical insight and analysis of the power relations between women's activism, Islamist thought and praxis, and the Egyptian state (1970s to 1990s). Contemporary feminist debates among women's NGOs are examined, and the different perceptions of gender roles among Islamist men and women are presented and contrasted. Three feminist streams are identified as both shaping and being shaped by, the dynamics of interaction between political Islam and state regimes.

Author : David Murray,Richard Handler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 2884492429

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The Nation/state and Its Sexual Dissidents by David Murray,Richard Handler Pdf

Author : Robert J. Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0253215498

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Materializing the Nation by Robert J. Foster Pdf

"Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested."—Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.