Tropological Thought and Action - Essays on the Poetics of Imagination

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.

About the author

Marko Živković is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton., and Director, Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility. His publications include Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milošević (Indiana, 2011).

Jamin Pelkey is Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Ryerson University, Toronto. His books include Dialectology as Dialectic (De Gruyter, 2011), and The Semiotics of X (Bloomsbury, 2017).

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Marko Pelkey Zivkovic
• Assisted by: Marko ¿Ivkovi¿ (Editor), James W. Fernandez (Editor), Fernandez James W. (Editor), Jamin Pelkey (Editor), Marko Zivkovic (Editor), Marko Živković (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781800732728
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-272-8
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture; Studies in Rhetoric and Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Anthropology (General); Sociology