Richard Bauman

A World of Others' Words

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality

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Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2005. Drawing on a broad range of oral performances and literary records from Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies that offer an innovative and illuminating look at intertextuality as communicative practice. Bauman uses his introduction to lay a framework for the analysis of genre, performance, and intertextuality as discursive accomplishments. He goes on to examine the ways that performers blend genres and then explores how they manage intertextual links or gaps by aligning texts in discursive practice. Finally, Bauman draws together these threads and turns his insights to a critical consideration of ethnographic practice itself, bringing into reflexive awareness the ways that ethnography positions us in a world of others' words.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9781405116053
• ISBN-10: 1405116056
• Artikelnr.: 13734636

Autorenporträt

Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Communication and Culture, and Anthropology, and Director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include Verbal Art as Performance (1977), Let Your Words Be Few (1983), Story, Performance, and Event (1986), and Voices of Modernity (with Charles L. Briggs, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.

Note on Transcription.

1.Introduction: Genre, Performance, and the Production ofIntertextuality.

2. "And The Verse Is Thus": Icelandic Stories About MagicalPoems.

3. "I'll Give You Three Guesses": Scots Riddle-Tales And TheDynamics Of Genre.

4. "What Shall We Give You?": Calibrations Of Genre In A MexicanMarket.

5. "Bell, You Get The Spotted Pup": First Person Narratives Of ATexas Storyteller.

6. "That I Can't Tell You": Negotiating Performance With ANova Scotia Fisherman.

7. "Go, My Reciter, Recite My Words": Mediation, Tradition,Authority.

Epilogue.

References.

Index

Rezensionen

"Richard Bauman, one of the world's foremost scholarsof folkloric texts and performances, is here at the peak of hiscareer. From street cries in a Mexican market to Icelandicfolktales, from practical jokes in rural Texas to the yarns of NovaScotia fishermen, this book takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour ofthe words through which people make meaning out of life."Greg Urban, University of Pennsylvania

"In a set of empirically rich, evocative essays, Baumancontinues his masterly explorations at the border of linguisticanthropology, literary theory, and the study of oral poetics.Together, these chapters provide an exemplary theoreticalperspective on genre and the cultural implications ofperformance." Susan Gal, University of Chicago

"Richard Bauman has given us a wonderful book, which drawson his wide-ranging experience in many places and cultures, on hisexpertise in both oral discourse and written texts, and on hiserudite knowledge in many academic disciplines---linguisticanthropology, folklore, and literary criticism." JoelSherzer, University of Texas, Austin

"A fresh take on folklore studies and a valuable addition to thecorpus of writing on linguistic anthropology. The writer balancesattention to detail with the ability to present arguments elegantlyand clearly." Social Anthropology