Tropological Thought and Action : : Essays on the Poetics of Imagination / / ed. by Marko Živković, James W. Fernandez, Jamin Pelkey.
From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Aides Pensée: Tropology and Tropologic -- CHAPTER 1 Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture Theory -- CHAPTER 2 A Trope of Time: Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas -- CHAPTER 3 Dreams Inside Out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry -- CHAPTER 4 On Conversion: A Theory of Ruins -- CHAPTER 5 Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer, or “Witnessing a Shipwreck” German Figurations in Facing the Past to Face the Future -- CHAPTER 6 An Apologia for Filthy Lucre -- CHAPTER 7 “Down the Garden Path” On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in Understanding -- CHAPTER 8 Sí teanga na muintire a shlánós an mhuintir: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence -- CHAPTER 9 Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post-9/11 New England -- CHAPTER 10 Irony’s Arrow Launching Contraria in Chinese Linguaculture -- CHAPTER 11 The Tropes of Music -- CHAPTER 12 Tactics For Working Anyway -- CHAPTER 13 Tropes, Frames, and Powers -- CONCLUSION Imaginative Leaps and Embodied Grounding -- Index |
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Summary: | From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781800732735 9783110997675 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781800732735?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Marko Živković, James W. Fernandez, Jamin Pelkey. |