Rhetorics of self-making /

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 perv...

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Tác giả khác: Battaglia, Debbora
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1995.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973161
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Tóm tắt: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.
Mô tả vật lý:1 online resource (vii, 147 pages)
Thư mục:Includes bibliographical references and index.
số ISBN:9780520915251
0520915259
058512955X
9780585129556
9780520087989
0520087984
9780520087996
0520087992