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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Information

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Year

2021

ISBN

9781800732735

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Cultural & Social Anthropology

Index

Social Sciences

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