Culture and Rhetoric (eBook)

Stephen Tyler is Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He has done fieldwork with the Koya tribe in the south of India and co-founded the International Rhetoric Culture Project in 1998. His major publications include Cognitive Anthropology (editor, 1969); India: An Anthropological Perspective (1973); The Said and the Unsaid (1978); and The Unspeakable (1987).

Ivo Strecker is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and co-founder of the International Rhetoric Culture Project in 1998. His empirical work has dealt with Hamar ethnography, and his theoretical work has focused on symbolism, ritual and rhetoric. He is (together with Jean Lydall) author of The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia (1979); The Social Practice of Symbolization (1988); and Ethnographic Chiasmus. Essays on Culture, Conflict and Rhetoric (2010).

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Ivo Strecker and Stephen Tyler

PART I: THE CHIASM OF RHETORIC AND CULTURE

Chapter 1. The rhetoric culture project
Stephen Tyler and Ivo Strecker

Chapter 2. Precursors of rhetoric culture theory
Christian Meyer

Chapter 3. Homo rhetoricus
Peter Oesterreich

Chapter 4. Listening culture
Daniel Gross

Chapter 5. Practice of rhetoric, rhetoric of practice
Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli

Chapter 6. Chiastic thought and culture : A reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss
Boris Wiseman

Chapter 7. When fair is foul and foul is fair : Lessons from Macbeth
Anthony Paul

PART II: FIGURATION - THE PERSUASIVE POWER OF DEEDS AND TROPES

Chapter 8. Rhetoric truth and the work of trope
Alan Rumsey

Chapter 9. Figuration, a common ground of rhetoric and anthropology
Philippe-Joseph Salazar

Chapter 10. Tropical foundations and foundational tropes of culture
James W. Fernandez

Chapter 11. Embodied rhetorics of earnest belief
Michael Herzfeld

Chapter 12. An epistemological query
Pierre Maranda

Chapter 13. Beyond the unsaid : Transcending language through language
Paul Friedrich

Chapter 14. Future imperfect : Imagining rhetoric culture
Robert Hariman

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index