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Berghahn Books Culture Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life 2009 Edition by Michael Carrithers
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments 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. Table of contents :- PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Inventions of hyperbolic cultureRalph CintronChapter 2. Medical rhetoric in the US and Africa: the oncologist as CharonMegan BieseleChapter 3. The diffuse in testimoniesStevan WeineChapter 4. Internal rhetorics: Constituting selves in diaries and beyondJein NienkampChapter 5. Ordeals of languageEllen BassoChapter 6. 'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman': Foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenonBrigitte NerlichChapter 7. Story seeds and the InchoateMichael CarrithersChapter 8. The palaestral aspect of rhetoricF.G. BaileyChapter 9. Rhetoric in the moral order: a critique of tropological approaches to cultureJames FernandezNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex