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Book SynopsisJust as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of seemingly dispersed individual actions and interactions? The contributors do not rely on rhetorical text alone but engage the situational, bodily, and often antagonistic character of cultural and communicative practices. The social situation itself is argued to be the fundamental site of cultural creation, as will-driven social processes are shaped by cognitive dispositions and shape them in turn. Drawing on expertise in a variety of disciplines and regions, the contributors critically engage dialogical approaches in their emphasis on how a view from rhetoric changes our perception of people''s intersubjective and conjoint creation of culture.
Trade Review “On balance, this volume [like others in the series] leans toward the theoretical. In this setting, even the ethnographic contributions may provide occasions for refreshing our styles of anthropological inquiry and expression. The volume is also –again like the other volumes –very effectively interdisciplinary: with only a pair of exceptions, the chapters can be read with profit by any anthropologist, or any scholar in contiguous social science disciplines. The overall virtue of this volume, though, is that it adds appropriately to the Rhetoric Culture Project, and so places in the hands of scholars a rich reservoir of ideas for describing human societies from their expressive face.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
“The volume’s best asset is being comprehensive enough to deal with traditional views on rhetoric, while at the same time bringing these issues up to date by linking the orator to the crowd that surrounds him…It is an excellent exploratory volume for the field, and one that will definitely provide food for thought for both researchers and students in the area.” · Discourse Studies
“This collection, as well as others in the series, charts out a theoretical and ethodological path for anthropologists, sociologists, political theorists, rhetoricians, and others who are interested in ethnographically understanding the power of rhetoric to both structure our lives and provide the resources to restructure it anew.” · Anthropos
“[A]n engaging, thought-provoking, and generative volume. Simultaneously wide-ranging and coherent, these essays explore the complex roles that rhetorical engagements - artful, resonant, and often transcending the solely verbal - play in shaping social life and the always emergent cultures at the heart of anthropological inquiry.” · Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz
“This volume is a welcome continuation of the Rhetoric Culture Project’s efforts to bring anthropology and rhetorical studies together. It does an excellent job illustrating the way that ‘culture is founded in rhetoric’ just as 'rhetoric is founded in culture’… The specific anthropological perspectives offered by the collection [is] extremely useful and thought provoking, especially valued for the theoretical models and case studies that illustrate the shaping of culture by particular rhetorical activities.” · Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
Table of Contents List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
Felix Girke and Christian Meyer
PART I: INTERSUBJECTIVITY
Chapter 1. The Dance of Rhetoric: Dialogic Selves and Spontaneously Responsive Expressions
John Shotter
Chapter 2. Co-opting Intersubjectivity: Dialogic Rhetoric of the Self
John W. DuBois
Chapter 3. Echo Chambers and Rhetoric. Sketch of a Model of Resonance Theory
Pierre Maranda
Chapter 4. Discourse beyond Language: Cultural Rhetoric, Revelatory Insight, and Nature
Donal Carbaugh and David Boromisza-Habashi
Chapter 5. The Spellbinding Aura of Culture. Tracing its Anthropological Discovery
Bernhard Streck
Chapter 6. Tenor in Culture
Ivo Strecker
PART II: EMERGENCE
Chapter 7. Attending the Vernacular. A Plea for an Ethnographical Rhetoric
Gerard A. Hauser
Chapter 8. Enhoused Speech: The Rhetoric of Foi Territoriality
James F. Weiner
Chapter 9. Transcultural Rhetoric and Cyberspace
Filipp Sapienza
Chapter 10. Jesuit Rhetorics: Translation Versus Conversion in Early-Modern Goa
Alexander Henn
Chapter 11. Evoking Peace and Arguing Harmony. An Example of Transcultural Rhetoric in Southern Ethiopia
Felix Girke and Alula Pankhurst
PART III: AGENCY
Chapter 12. In Defense of the Orator. A Classicist Outlook on Rhetoric Culture
Franz-Hubert Robling
Chapter 13. Rhetoric, Anti-Structure, and the Social Formation of Authorship
James Thomas Zebroski
Chapter 14. Attention & Rhetoric: Prolepsis and the Problem of Meaning
Todd Oakley
Chapter 15. Emergence, Agency and the Middle Ground of Culture: A Meditation on Mediation
Stephen A. Tyler
Notes on Contributors
Index
