Ethnographic Chiasmus: Essays on Culture, Conflict, and Rhetoric (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780870139901)

The essays assembled in this volume are shaped by conditions--both enabling and constraining--that can perhaps best be described as an "ethnographic chiasmus." This expression refers to the surprise and reversal of position that are characteristic of fieldwork, and it attends to the fact that transcultural understanding comes about as a meeting, touching, or "crossing." Chiasmus also pertains to the relationship between culture and rhetoric in general. Culture structures rhetoric; rhetoric structures culture. Both are coemergent. In order to elucidate this process, ethnography has to focus on the manifold modes of rhetoric through which culture-specific patterns of thought and action are created.

Author: IVo Strecker
ISBN-10: 0870139908
ISBN-13: 9780870139901
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.30w x 1.00d