Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Carrithers.
• Other Names: Carrithers, Michael
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 184 pages)
• Subjects: 306; Culture; Social evolution; Rhetoric; Life; Social problems; Philosophical anthropology; Social Science; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Culture; Life; Philosophical anthropology; Rhetoric; Social evolution; Social problems; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845459246; 1845459245
• Related ISBNs: 9781845454296; 1845454294
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.