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Culture Figures

A Rhetorical Reading of Anthropology

Michał Mokrzan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Published:1st Jun '24

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Ethnographic research, anthropological theory, and the understanding of the objects of inquiry, are co-created through figuration (using tropes and rhetorical figures) and techniques of persuasion. Delving into descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts spanning across classical monographs and recent texts in cultural anthropology, Culture Figures places rhetoric and rhetoricity as central to the discipline’s self-understanding. It focuses on how understandings of ‘culture’ and social life are shaped and conveyed in cultural anthropology through textual rhetoric. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie the creation of meanings or misunderstandings in society.

“This is a valuable monograph that presents a very detailed analysis of how anthropological narrative is constructed using various rhetorical tools.”• Krzysztof Jaskułowski, SWPS University

“The book is not only very insightful on a theoretical and conceptual level, but its main strength lies in the application of a rhetorical reading of anthropology of specific works by anthropologists.”• Kris Rutten, Ghent University

ISBN: 9781805395393

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224 pages