Culture figures: a rhetorical reading of anthropology

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Mokrzan, Michał (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2024
Schriftenreihe:Studies in rhetoric and culture volume 10
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Online-Zugang:DE-188
Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 192 Seiten)
ISBN:9781805395409
9781805395416

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