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Rhetorics of self-making / edited by Debbora Battaglia.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 147 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520915251
  • 0520915259
  • 058512955X
  • 9780585129556
  • 9780520087989
  • 0520087984
  • 9780520087996
  • 0520087992
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rhetorics of self-making.DDC classification:
  • 155.2 20
LOC classification:
  • BF697.5.S65 R48 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Problematizing the self: a thematic introduction / Debbora Battagli -- Self-exposure as theory: the double mark of the male Jew / Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyari -- On eccentricity / George E. Marcu -- If you have the advertisement you don't need the product / Roy Wagne -- On practical nostalgia: self-prospecting among urban trobrianders / Debbora Battagli -- Nostalgia and the new genetics / Marilyn Strather -- Production values: indigenous media and the rhetoric of self-determination / Faye Ginsbur.
Summary: This book advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood in three ways: First, it argues 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, it challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood in three ways: First, it argues 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, it challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world.

Problematizing the self: a thematic introduction / Debbora Battagli -- Self-exposure as theory: the double mark of the male Jew / Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyari -- On eccentricity / George E. Marcu -- If you have the advertisement you don't need the product / Roy Wagne -- On practical nostalgia: self-prospecting among urban trobrianders / Debbora Battagli -- Nostalgia and the new genetics / Marilyn Strather -- Production values: indigenous media and the rhetoric of self-determination / Faye Ginsbur.

Print version record.

English.

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