Book Review| June 01 2017 Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science. By Risa Applegarth. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014; pp. x + 267. $27.95 paper. Ann George Ann George Texas Christian University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (2): 376–384. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0376 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ann George; Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2017; 20 (2): 376–384. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0376 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Rhetorical Education in America, edited by Cheryl Glenn, Margaret M. Lyday, and Wendy B. Sharer. Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2004. 245 + xvi pp. Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke, by Gregory Clark. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. 181 pp. Gorgias: Sophist and Artist, by Scott Consigny. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 242 pp.

Abstract Burke's famous performance at the First American Writers’ Congress in 1935 should be understood in relation to its occasion. The Congress was held to enlist the services of writers in creating a broad Popular Front, or People's Front, to encourage social change, so Burke's recommendation that “the people”; ought to be substituted for “the worker”; in Communist Party symbolism—that “propaganda by inclusion”; ought to succeed “propaganda by exclusion “—was actually in moderate keeping with the Congress’ broad aim. Though his recommendation was resisted by some, Burke was actually not so much marginalized by the Congress as identified with its controversies.