CHAPTER 10 Tropical Foundations and Foundational Tropes of Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I The Chiasm of Rhetoric and Culture
7. CHAPTER 1 The Rhetoric Culture Project 19
8. CHAPTER 2 Precursors of Rhetoric Culture Theory 31
9. CHAPTER 3 Homo Rhetoricus 49
10. CHAPTER 4 Listening Culture 59
11. CHAPTER 5 Practice of Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Practice 74
12. CHAPTER 6 Chiastic Thought and Culture A Reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss 85
13. CHAPTER 7 When Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair Lessons from Macbeth 104
14. Part II Figuration—The Persuasive Power of Deeds and Tropes
15. CHAPTER 8 Rhetoric, Truth, and the Work of Trope 115
16. CHAPTER 9 Figuration—a Common Ground of Rhetoric and Anthropology 150
17. CHAPTER 10 Tropical Foundations and Foundational Tropes of Culture 166
18. CHAPTER 11 Convictions: Embodied Rhetorics of Earnest Belief 182
19. CHAPTER 12 An Epistemological Query 207
20. CHAPTER 13 Beyond the Unsaid Transcending Language through Language 211
21. CHAPTER 14 Future Imperfect Imagining Rhetorical Culture Theory 221
22. Contributors 238
23. Index 241