From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought.

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Aides Pensee: Tropology and Tropologic, An Introduction James W. Fernandez Chapter 1. Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture Theory Ivo Strecker Chapter 2. A Trope of Time. Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas John H. Leavitt Chapter 3. Dreams Inside-out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry Marko Živković Chapter 4. On Conversion: A Theory of Ruins Joseba Zulaika Chapter 5. Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer—“Witnessing a Shipwreck”: German Figurations in facing the Past to face the Future Michael Carrithers Chapter 6. An Apologia for Filthy Lucre Gustav Peebles Chapter 7. “Down the Garden Path.” On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in Understanding James W. Fernandez Chapter 8. “Sí Teanga na Muintire a Shlánós an Mhuintir”: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence Steve Coleman Chapter 9. Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post 9/11 New England Bernard Bate Chapter 10. Irony's Arrow: Launching Contraria in Chinese Linguaculture Mary Scoggin Chapter 11. The Tropes of Music William O. Beeman Chapter 12. Tactics For Working Anyway Dale Pesmen Chapter 13. Tropes, Frames and Powers Terence S. Turner Conclusion: Imaginative Leaps in Rhetoric Culture Jamin Pelkey and Marko Živković Index

“This book shows what is to be gained from thinking rhetorically about any particular problem, family of objects, or traditional discipline. It demonstrates the vitality of rhetoric in the social sciences as anything but a mere formalism or “linguistic turn”.” • Haun Saussy, University of Chicago