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Direct linkApplegarth, Risa – College Composition and Communication, 2012
This study examines how changes in a key scientific genre supported anthropology's early twentieth-century bid for scientific status. Combining spatial theories of genre with inflections from the register of economics, I develop the concept of "rhetorical scarcity" to characterize this genre change not as evolution but as manipulation that…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Epistemology, Science Education, Figurative Language
