@article {1106, title = {Rhetorical Scarcity: Spatial and Economic Inflections on Genre Change}, journal = {College Composition and Communication}, volume = {63}, year = {2012}, month = {02/2012}, pages = {483}, chapter = {453}, abstract = {
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.
}, keywords = {genre, history, professional, rhetoric, science}, author = {Risa Applegarth} }