"The volume features contributions from an impressive array of scholars operating at the borders between anthropology, sociology, and economics, and offers much to interest scholars from each of these
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors ex
This is the fourth in a series of volumes resulting out of conferences organized in conjunction with the International Rhetoric Culture Project, which states in its theoretical outline that "just as r
Contributors are from a mix of fields--rhetoric and public culture, cognitive science, philosophy, and French and Francophone studies--but the majority are anthropologists, and all have a connection w
Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for perfo
