Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Contributors

M. Carrithers m.b.carrithers@durham.ac.uk
Editor

Abstract

Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicatments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The contributors bring expertise from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the volume’s wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.

Citation

Carrithers, M. (Ed.). (2009). Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life. Berghahn Journals

Book Type	Edited Book
Publication Date	Jun 1, 2009
Deposit Date	Sep 8, 2009
Publisher	Berghahn Journals
Pages	34-52
Series Title	Studies in rhetoric and culture
Series Number	2
Keywords	Anthropology, Cultural studies, Rhetoric culture theory.
Publisher URL	http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=CarrithersCulture
Additional Information	Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Inventions of hyperbolic culture Ralph Cintron Chapter 2. Medical rhetoric in the US and Africa: the oncologist as Charon Megan Biesele Chapter 3. The diffuse in testimonies Stevan Weine Chapter 4. Internal rhetorics: Constituting selves in diaries and beyond Jein Nienkamp Chapter 5. Ordeals of language Ellen Basso Chapter 6. ‘As if Goya was on hand as a marksman’: Foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon Brigitte Nerlich Chapter 7. Story seeds and the Inchoate Michael Carrithers Chapter 8. The palaestral aspect of rhetoric F.G. Bailey Chapter 9. Rhetoric in the moral order: a critique of tropological approaches to culture James Fernandez Notes on contributors Bibliography Index