Rhetoric and Social Relations

Jon Abbink is a research professor of Politics and Governance in Africa (Political Anthropology) at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. Recent publications include The Anthropology of Elites (co-edited, Palgrave, 2012), Reconfiguring Ethiopia (co-edited, Routledge, 2013), a co-authored monograph, Suri Orature, on the Suri people (Köppe Verlag, 2014), and the edited volume The Environmental Crunch in Africa (Palgrave, 2018).

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Preface



PART I: POSITIONING



Introduction: Rhetoric in Social Relations

Jon Abbink and Shauna LaTosky



Chapter 1. Embodied Chiasmus: From Alienation to Participation

Jamin Pelkey



PART II: BONDING



Chapter 2. Kinship: Mother and Child of Rhetoric

Jean Lydall



Chapter 3. What Do Kinship Terms Do? The Dual Life of Kinship Rhetoric in English-Written Hunter-Gatherers’ Ethnography

Nurit Bird-David



Chapter 4. The Rhetoric of Kinship: ‘Doing Kinship’ – Some Mambila Cases

David Zeitlyn



Chapter 5. Establishing Ethos: The Rhetorical Work of Bondfriendship

Felix Girke



Chapter 6. The Rhetorics of Purging among the Mun (Mursi) of Southern Ethiopia

Shauna LaTosky



Chapter 7. The Art of Playing Tuql: How to ‘Make’ Love in Egypt

Steffen Strohmenger



Chapter 8. Enculturation as Rhetorical Practice

Ivo Strecker



PART III: CONTESTATION



Chapter 9. Sweet Tongues: The Rhetoric of Politeness in Damascus

Anke Reichenbach



Chapter 10. Words and Images: A Cross-cultural View on Swearing as a Rhetorical Strategy in Social Relations

Susan du Mesnil de Rochemont



Chapter 11. Flavouring the Nation: The Rhetoric of Nutrition Policies in Ethiopia

Valentina Peveri



Chapter 12. Power Relations in Suri: Public Speech and Action

Jon Abbink



Chapter 13. Inducement to Action and Change in Attitude: Coaching in the Light of Rhetorical Anthropology

Michał Mokrzan



Index