%0 Journal Article %J College Composition and Communication %D 2012 %T Rhetorical Scarcity: Spatial and Economic Inflections on Genre Change %A Risa Applegarth %K genre %K history %K professional %K rhetoric %K science %X

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 produces a manufactured situation of intense rhetorical constraint.

%B College Composition and Communication %V 63 %P 483 %8 02/2012 %G eng %N 3 %& 453