Everyday Life : : A Poetics of Vernacular Practices / / Roger Abrahams.
A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I: The Many Forms of Goodwill
- Chapter 1. Figures of Speech
- Chapter 2. Forms in Opposition
- Chapter 3. Genres
- Chapter 4. Stories
- PART II: Goodwill Tested
- Chapter 5. Just Talking/Taking License
- Chapter 6. Playing
- Chapter 7. Events/Experiences
- PART III: Social Imaginaries
- Chapter 8. Zones and Borders
- Chapter 9. Festive Gatherings
- Chapter 10. Facing Off at the Border
- PART IV: Terms for Finding Ourselves
- Chapter 11. Ethnicities
- Chapter 12. Identities
- Chapter 13. Creolizations
- Chapter 14. Diasporas
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments