Rhetorics of Self-Making

Debbora Battaglia

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780520087989
• eBook ISBN: 9780520915251
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Antropología

Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world. Contributions cover a broad range of topics—from the development of the eccentric self to the ritual circumcision of Jewish males.
Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is cul

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ONE Problematizing the Self: A Thematic Introduction
• TWO Self-Exposure as Theory: The Double Mark of the Male Jew
• THREE On Eccentricity
• FOUR If You Have the Advertisement You Don’t Need the Product
• FIVE On Practical Nostalgia: Self-Prospecting among Urban Trobrianders
• SIX Nostalgia and the New Genetics
• SEVEN Production Values: Indigenous Media and the Rhetoric of Self-Determination
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX