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Tropological Thought and Action (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on the Poetics of Imagination

Redaktion: Zivkovic, Marko; Fernandez, James W.; Pelkey, Jamin

Beschreibung

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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Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800732735
• Artikelnr.: 62158382