Irony in Action Anthropology, Practice, and the Moral Imagination

Name: Irony in Action Anthropology, Practice, and the Moral Imagination
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ISBN: 9780226244235

ISBN-10: 0226244237

ISBN-13: 9780226244235

Edition: 2001

Authors: James Fernandez, Mary Taylor Huber

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Irony today extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. This idea of irony as an integral force in social life is at the center of this provocative book. The result of a meeting where anthropologists were invited to explore the politics of irony and the moral responsibilities that accompany its recognition, this book is one of the first to lend an anthropological perspective to this contemporary phenomenon. The first group of essays explores the limits to irony's liberating qualities from the constrained use of irony in congressional hearings to its reactive presence amid widening disparities of…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Anthropology of Irony






The Constrained Use of Irony in U.S. Congressional Hearings on Immigration



Irony and Power: Toward a Politics of Mockery in Greece



The Irony of Complicity and the Complicity of Irony in Development Discourse



What Makes the Anthropologist Laugh?: The Abelam, Irony, and Me



Kenneth Burke's "True Irony": One Model for Ethnography, Still



An Apollonian Response






Wine in the Writing, Truth in the Rhetoric: Three Levels of Irony in a Chinese Essay Genre



"Paddy's Pig":Irony and Self-Irony in Irish Culture



Irony and Paradox in the "Contact Zone": Missionary Discourse in Northern Papua New Guuinea



The Predicament of Irony and the Paranoid Style in Fin-de-Siegrave;cle Rationality



Ironic Irony



The Last Discussant


Coda: Irony, Practice, and the Moral Imagination


List of Contributors


Index