Culture Figures

A Rhetorical Reading of Anthropology

Michał Mokrzan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-539-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Michał Mokrzan is a member of staff at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Wrocław. He has received multiple awards for the book Class, Capital, and Coaching in the Era of Late Capitalism: The Persuasion of Neoliberal Governmentality (Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University Scientific Press, 2019), including the Bronisław Malinowski Award (from the Polish Academy of Sciences).

Foreword

Ivo Strecker

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Chiasmus of Rhetoric and Anthropology

Chapter 2. Root Metaphors for ‘Culture’ and Social Life

Chapter 3. Enargeia, Metonymy and Synecdoches: Videocentrism in Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Chapter 4. Varieties of Rhetoric in Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska’s Społeczność Wiejska (Rural Community)

Chapter 5. Persuasive Engrams: The Work of Memory in Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Tristes Tropiques

Chapter 6. Coercive Script and Innocent Speech: Re-Thinking Jacques Derrida’s of Grammatology

Chapter 7. Artful Speakers and Willful Listeners: The Quandaries of Irony Prejudice and Pre-Texts

Chapter 8. Paronomasia and Complexity of Parody: A Rhetorical Reading of Stephen Tyler’s ‘a Post-Modern in-Stance’

Chapter 9. Accusation and Defence: The Rhetorics of ‘Moral’ and ‘Objective’ Anthropologies

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Rhetoric and Culture
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-539-4 / 1805395394
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-539-3 / 9781805395393
Zustand	Neuware