Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life

Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life [Texte imprimé] / edited by Michael Carrithers - New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2009 - 1 vol. (XI-184 p.) ; 24 cm - Studies in rhetoric and culture ; 2 . - Studies in rhetoric and culture (Berghahn Books, New York) .

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Internal rhetorics : constituting selves in diaries and beyond / Jean Nienkamp -- Story seeds and the inchoate / Michael Carrithers -- The diffuse in testimonies / Stevan M. Weine -- Medical rhetoric in the U.S. and Africa : the oncologist as Charon / Megan Biesele -- 'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman' : foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon / Brigitte Nerlich -- The palaestral aspect of rhetoric / F.G. Bailey -- Ordeals of language / Ellen B. Basso -- Inventions of hyperbolic culture / Ralph Cintron -- Rhetoric in the moral order : a critique of tropological approaches to culture / James W. Fernandez

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Culture Social evolution Rhetoric Life Social problems Philosophical anthropology

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