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Contents

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Aides Pensee: Tropology and Tropologic, An Introduction
James W. Fernandez

Chapter 1. Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture Theory
Ivo Strecker

Chapter 2. A Trope of Time. Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas
John H. Leavitt

Chapter 3. Dreams Inside-out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry
Marko Živković

Chapter 4. On Conversion: A Theory of Ruins
Joseba Zulaika

Chapter 5. Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer—“Witnessing a Shipwreck”: German Figurations in facing the Past to face the Future
Michael Carrithers

Chapter 6. An Apologia for Filthy Lucre
Gustav Peebles

Chapter 7. “Down the Garden Path.” On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in Understanding
James W. Fernandez

Chapter 8. “Sí Teanga na Muintire a Shlánós an Mhuintir”: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence
Steve Coleman

Chapter 9. Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post 9/11 New England
Bernard Bate

Chapter 10. Irony's Arrow: Launching Contraria in Chinese Linguaculture
Mary Scoggin

Chapter 11. The Tropes of Music
William O. Beeman

Chapter 12. Tactics For Working Anyway
Dale Pesmen

Chapter 13. Tropes, Frames and Powers
Terence S. Turner

Conclusion: Imaginative Leaps in Rhetoric Culture
Jamin Pelkey and Marko Živković

Index

Tropological Thought and Action

Essays on the Poetics of Imagination

Edited by Marko Živković, Jamin Pelkey and James W. Fernandez

354 pages, 4 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-272-8 Hb Published (January 2022)

eISBN 978-1-80073-273-5 eBook

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“This book shows what is to be gained from thinking rhetorically about any particular problem, family of objects, or traditional discipline. It demonstrates the vitality of rhetoric in the social sciences as anything but a mere formalism or “linguistic turn”.” • Haun Saussy, University of Chicago

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.

Marko Živković is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton., and Director, Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility. His publications include Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milošević (Indiana, 2011).

Jamin Pelkey is Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ryerson University, Toronto. His books include Dialectology as Dialectic (De Gruyter, 2011), and The Semiotics of X (Bloomsbury, 2017).

James W. Fernandez is a Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology. He has published extensively on the rhetorical imagination including the prize winning ethnography, Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa (Princeton, 1982).

Series: Volume 9, Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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LC: P301.5.F53 T76 2022

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; LAN015000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES/Rhetoric; SOC026040 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Social Theory