Rhetoric and Social Relations

Jon Abbink is a research professor of Politics and Governance in Africa (Political Anthropology) at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. Recent publications include The Anthropology of Elites (co-edited, Palgrave, 2012), Reconfiguring Ethiopia (co-edited, Routledge, 2013), a co-authored monograph, Suri Orature, on the Suri people (Köppe Verlag, 2014), and the edited volume The Environmental Crunch in Africa (Palgrave, 2018).

• List of IllustrationsPrefacePART I: POSITIONINGIntroduction: Rhetoric in Social RelationsJon Abbink and Shauna LaToskyChapter 1. Embodied Chiasmus: From Alienation to ParticipationJamin PelkeyPART II: BONDINGChapter 2. Kinship: Mother and Child of RhetoricJean LydallChapter 3. What Do Kinship Terms Do? The Dual Life of Kinship Rhetoric in English-Written Hunter-Gatherers’ EthnographyNurit Bird-DavidChapter 4. The Rhetoric of Kinship: ‘Doing Kinship’ – Some Mambila CasesDavid ZeitlynChapter 5. Establishing Ethos: The Rhetorical Work of BondfriendshipFelix GirkeChapter 6. The Rhetorics of Purging among the Mun (Mursi) of Southern EthiopiaShauna LaToskyChapter 7. The Art of Playing Tuql: How to ‘Make’ Love in EgyptSteffen StrohmengerChapter 8. Enculturation as Rhetorical PracticeIvo StreckerPART III: CONTESTATIONChapter 9. Sweet Tongues: The Rhetoric of Politeness in DamascusAnke ReichenbachChapter 10. Words and Images: A Cross-cultural View on Swearing as a Rhetorical Strategy in Social RelationsSusan du Mesnil de RochemontChapter 11. Flavouring the Nation: The Rhetoric of Nutrition Policies in EthiopiaValentina PeveriChapter 12. Power Relations in Suri: Public Speech and ActionJon AbbinkChapter 13. Inducement to Action and Change in Attitude: Coaching in the Light of Rhetorical AnthropologyMichał MokrzanIndex

“It is a quite fascinating, accomplished, and innovative volume … The co-editors and contributors have put together a rich, multiperspectival, and often compelling exploration of the complex and consequential nexus of social relations and rhetoric.” • Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz