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Ethnographic Chiasmus : Essays on Culture, Conflict, and Rhetoric by Jean Lydall; Ivo A. Strecker is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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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 structu
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jean Lydall; Ivo A. Strecker
- Publisher
- Michigan State University Press ; Munster : LIT Verlag; Michigan State University Press; Renner; Lit Verlag; Michigan State University Press, 2010-
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783876730646
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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