This collection of thirty-seven entries selected from the more than 550 that make up the International Encyclopedia of Communications focuses on expressive forms and practices that are popular and participatory in nature: folklore forms such as folktale and riddle; cultural performances such as ritual and festival; and popular entertainments such as puppetry and mime. Cross-references within each individual entry facilitate exploration within the volume, while bibliographies appended to each entry direct the reader to related literature. Covering basic concepts, analytical perspectives, communicative media, expressive genres, and complex performance events, this concise yet comprehensive book is a handy reference for those interested in folklore and its growing role in drama, anthropology, and cultural studies.
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"Excellent and basic--will be assigned to all incoming folklore graduate students."--Margaret A. Mills, University of Pennsylvania
"Excellent and very useful collection of essays."--Dan Ben-Amos, University of Pennsylvania
"Socially situated forms of expressive culture are here treated as both emergent and constituent of social life....These accessible essays are ideal vehicles for introducing students to the delightful communicative possibilities."--Claire R. Farrer, California State University, Chico
"This book is perfect as a reader for my folklife and culture course."--Elaine Mayer, Salve Regina University
"The topics are well researched and authoritative, and the breadth of the volume is truly multi-disciplinary owing to the wealth of backgrounds displayed by the contributors, spanning folklore, anthropology, history, communication, literature, theater, ethnomusicology, and cultural studies."--Popular Culture
"An outstanding collection for those who regard human communication from an anthropological viewpoint."--D.J. Elmira College
"Excellent and very useful collection of essays."--Dan Ben-Amos, University of Pennsylvania
"Socially situated forms of expressive culture are here treated as both emergent and constituent of social life....These accessible essays are ideal vehicles for introducing students to the delightful communicative possibilities."--Claire R. Farrer, California State University, Chico
"This book is perfect as a reader for my folklife and culture course."--Elaine Mayer, Salve Regina University
"The topics are well researched and authoritative, and the breadth of the volume is truly multi-disciplinary owing to the wealth of backgrounds displayed by the contributors, spanning folklore, anthropology, history, communication, literature, theater, ethnomusicology, and cultural studies."--Popular Culture
"An outstanding collection for those who regard human communication from an anthropological viewpoint."--D.J. Elmira College
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Richard Bauman is at Indiana University.
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The concept of culture has an agricultural origin: it first referred to the tending or "cultivation" of crops. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
institutionalized humor, ultimate sacred postulates, autonomous gestures, folklore forms, clothing codes, gestural forms, oral poems, eating events, folklore genres, speech play, folk society, oral poetry, communicative resources, communicative forms, tourist art, morphological method Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Folklore Genres by Dan Ben-Amos on 4 pages
- Verbal Art As Performance by Richard Bauman on page 48, page 143, and page 177
- Folklore: Performance and Communication (Approaches to Semiotics, No 40) by D. Ben-Amos on page 40, page 49, and page 118
- The Anthropology of Music by Alan P. Merriam on page 91, and page 166
- Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience by Erving Goffman on page 28, and page 49
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- Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture by Burt Feintuch on page 62, and page 172
- Rethinking Folk Drama (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by Steve Tillis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (Myth & poetics) by Joyce Burkhaltler Flueckiger in Back Matter
- Teaching Performance Studies (Theater in the Americas) by Nathan Stucky on page 81
- Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection by Ruth Finnegan in Back Matter
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