Rhetorics of Self-Making

"An exceptionally stimulating work. . . . Likely to become a classic."—Donald Brenneis, Pitzer College

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

1. Problematizing the Self: A Thematic Introduction
Debbora Battaglia

2. Self-Exposure as Theory: The Double Mark of the Male Jew
Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin 

3. On Eccentricity
George E. Marcus 

4. If You Have the Advertisement You Don't Need the Product
Roy Wagner 

5. On Practical Nostalgia: Self-Prospecting among Urban Trobrianders
Debbora Battaglia 

6. Nostalgia and the New Genetics
Marilyn Strathern 

7. Production Values: Indigenous Media and the Rhetoric of Self-Determination
Faye Ginsburg 

CONTRIBUTORS 
INDEX 

About the author

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).

Summary

Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to literature.

Product details

• Authors: Debbora Battaglia
• Assisted by: Debbora Battaglia (Editor), Battaglia Debbora (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.1995
• EAN: 9780520087996
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08799-6
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, Anthropology, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Literary studies: general