Metaphors of Identity: A Culture-Communication Dialogue

By Thomas K. Fitzgerald

Book Overview

Placing identity within its cultural context, Fitzgerald offers ethnographic case material to examine the meaning and changing metaphors of ethnicity, male and female identity, and aging and identity. He opens up an exciting multidisciplinary dialogue for improving interpersonal and cross-cultural communication. The book provides a clear synthesis of the interrelated meanings of culture, identity, and communication, examining self-concept and its role in the communication process, and exploring cultural and biological research on self, individuality, personality, and mind-body questions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791415961
• ISBN13: 9780791415962
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A book for literate humanists

METAPHORS OF IDENTITY crosses and combines disciplines to examine the nature of identity in human society. Fitzgerald, in deftly separating "identity" from "culture," clearly provides a reasoned and critical view of social, biological, and political factors which thwart understanding and cohesion among groups of people. This book should not be confined to the academic world, but should be enjoyed by literate humanists who find the canon of "political correctness" politically, intellectually, and spiritually pinching, but who despise bigotry in all its many forms.