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Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
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Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
About this book
From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.
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Yes, you can access Tropological Thought and Action by Jamin Pelkey,James W. Fernandez,Marko Živković in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Rhetoric. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Tropological Thought and Action
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction — Aides Pensée: Tropology and Tropologic
- Chapter 1 — Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture Theory
- Chapter 2 — A Trope of Time: Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas
- Chapter 3 — Dreams Inside Out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry
- Chapter 4 — On Conversion: A Theory of Ruins
- Chapter 5 — Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer, or “Witnessing a Shipwreck”: German Figurations in Facing the Past to Face the Future
- Chapter 6 — An Apologia for Filthy Lucre
- Chapter 7 — “Down the Garden Path”: On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in Understanding
- Chapter 8 — Sí teanga na muintire a shlánós an mhuintir: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence
- Chapter 9 — Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post-9/11 New England
- Chapter 10 — Irony’s Arrow: Launching Contraria in Chinese Linguaculture
- Chapter 11 — The Tropes of Music
- Chapter 12 — Tactics for Working Anyway
- Chapter 13 — Tropes, Frames, and Powers
- Conclusion — Imaginative Leaps and Embodied Grounding
- Index