Culture and Rhetoric

Published by Berghahn Books 2009

Culture and Rhetoric

Edited by: Ivo Strecker and Stephen Tyler

Volume 1 in the series Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459291

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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.

Author / Editor information

Ivo Strecker is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and co-founder of the International Rhetoric Culture Project in 1998. His empirical work has dealt with Hamar ethnography, and his theoretical work has focused on symbolism, ritual and rhetoric. He is (together with Jean Lydall) author of The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia (1979); The Social Practice of Symbolization (1988); and Ethnographic Chiasmus. Essays on Culture, Conflict and Rhetoric (2010).

Stephen Tyler (1932-2020) was Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He conducted fieldwork with the Koya tribe in the south of India and co-founded the International Rhetoric Culture Project in 1998. His was editor of Cognitive Anthropology (1969), and author of India: An Anthropological Perspective (1973); The Said and the Unsaid (1978); and The Unspeakable (1987).

Ivo Strecker is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and co-founder of the International Rhetoric Culture Project in 1998. His empirical work has dealt with Hamar ethnography, and his theoretical work has focused on symbolism, ritual and rhetoric. He is (together with Jean Lydall) author of The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia (1979); The Social Practice of Symbolization (1988); and Ethnographic Chiasmus. Essays on Culture, Conflict and Rhetoric (2010).

Reviews

"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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Ivo Strecker and Stephen Tyler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I The Chiasm of Rhetoric and Culture
CHAPTER 1 The Rhetoric Culture Project Stephen Tyler and Ivo Strecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
CHAPTER 2 Precursors of Rhetoric Culture Theory Christian Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
CHAPTER 3 Homo Rhetoricus Peter L. Oesterreich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
CHAPTER 4 Listening Culture Daniel M. Gross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
CHAPTER 5 Practice of Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Practice Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
CHAPTER 6 Chiastic Thought and Culture A Reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss Boris Wiseman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
CHAPTER 7 When Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair Lessons from Macbeth Anthony Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Part II Figuration—The Persuasive Power of Deeds and Tropes
CHAPTER 8 Rhetoric, Truth, and the Work of Trope Alan Rumsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
CHAPTER 9 Figuration—a Common Ground of Rhetoric and Anthropology Philippe-Joseph Salazar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
CHAPTER 10 Tropical Foundations and Foundational Tropes of Culture James W. Fernandez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
CHAPTER 11 Convictions: Embodied Rhetorics of Earnest Belief Michael Herzfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
CHAPTER 12 An Epistemological Query Pierre Maranda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
CHAPTER 13 Beyond the Unsaid Transcending Language through Language Paul Friedrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
CHAPTER 14 Future Imperfect Imagining Rhetorical Culture Theory Robert Hariman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 268
Keywords: Theory and Methodology; Cultural Studies (General)

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Published: July 1, 2009
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