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Rhetorics of Self-Making
Debbora Battaglia (Ed.)
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Description for Rhetorics of Self-Making
Paperback. Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to literature. Editor(s): Battaglia, Debbora. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; JFC; JHM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 27.
Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world. Contributions cover a broad range of topics--from the development of the eccentric self to the ritual circumcision ... Read more
Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world. Contributions cover a broad range of topics--from the development of the eccentric self to the ritual circumcision ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520087996
SKU
V9780520087996
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About Debbora Battaglia (Ed.)
Debbora Battaglia, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, is the author of On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory and Mortality in Sabarl Island Society (1990).
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