Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

by Michael Carrithers

Book Overview

...a fine collection of essays illuminating situation uses of narratives, images and tropes that are not contemplated as 'explanations' but as cultural resources mobilized to impart meaning and order when facing concrete circumstances...a great variety of excellent analyses going beyond the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology...this book is a welcome contribution and the project I belongs to offers one of the most important shifts in European...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857458000
• ISBN13: 9780857458001
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"