Culture Figures

Michał Mokrzan is a member of staff at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Wrocław. He has received multiple awards for the book Class, Capital, and Coaching in the Era of Late Capitalism: The Persuasion of Neoliberal Governmentality (Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University Scientific Press, 2019), including the Bronisław Malinowski Award (from the Polish Academy of Sciences).

Foreword

Ivo Strecker



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Chapter 1. The Chiasmus of Rhetoric and Anthropology

Chapter 2. Root Metaphors for ‘Culture’ and Social Life

Chapter 3. Enargeia, Metonymy and Synecdoches: Videocentrism in Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Chapter 4. Varieties of Rhetoric in Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska’s Społeczność Wiejska (Rural Community)

Chapter 5. Persuasive Engrams: The Work of Memory in Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Tristes Tropiques

Chapter 6. Coercive Script and Innocent Speech: Re-Thinking Jacques Derrida’s of Grammatology

Chapter 7. Artful Speakers and Willful Listeners: The Quandaries of Irony Prejudice and Pre-Texts

Chapter 8. Paronomasia and Complexity of Parody: A Rhetorical Reading of Stephen Tyler’s ‘a Post-Modern in-Stance’

Chapter 9. Accusation and Defence: The Rhetorics of ‘Moral’ and ‘Objective’ Anthropologies



Conclusion



References

Index