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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Culture and Rhetoric
• Author: Strecker
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 268
• EAN: 9781845454630
• ISBN: 1845454634
• ID: 04273040
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 498 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 160 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2009

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