Bauman, Richard 1940-

Voices of modernity : language ideologies and the politics of inequality by Richard Bauman( )

16 editions published between 2003 and 2006 in English and held by 1,631 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This novel reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political and scientific revolutions possible. The connections between language ideologies, privileged linguistic codes, and political concepts and practices shape the diverse ways we perceive ourselves and others. Bauman and Briggs demonstrate that contemporary efforts to make schemes of social inequality based on race, gender, class and nationality seem compelling and legitimate, rely on deeply-rooted ideas about language and tradition. Showing how critics of modernity unwittingly reproduce these foundational fictions, they suggest new strategies for challenging the undemocratic influence of these voices of modernity

Folklore, cultural performances, and popular entertainments : a communications-centered handbook by Richard Bauman( )

19 editions published between 1981 and 1992 in English and held by 1,433 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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, commun

Explorations in the ethnography of speaking( Book )

48 editions published between 1974 and 2000 in English and held by 1,193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The essays in this work deal with traditional societies in North, Middle and South America, Africa and Oceania, as well as English, French and Yiddish speaking communities in Europe and North America and Afro-American communities in North America and the Caribbean

Toward new perspectives in folklore by Américo Paredes( Book )

18 editions published between 1971 and 2000 in English and held by 774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Story, performance, and event : contextual studies of oral narrative by Richard Bauman( Book )

29 editions published between 1986 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 768 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based on a corpus of Texan oral narratives collected by the author over the past fifteen years, this study presents an analysis of the literary qualities or orally performed verbal art, focusing on the significance of its social context. Although the tales included are all from Texas, they are representative of oral storytelling traditions in other parts of the United States, including tall tales, hunting stories, local character anecdotes, accounts of practical jokes, and so on. They are also highly entertaining in their own right. Professor Bauman's main emphasis is on the act of storytelling, not just the text. His central analytical concern is to demonstrate the interrelationships that exist between the events recounted in the narratives (narrated events), the narrative texts, and the situations in which the narratives are told (narrative events). He identifies these interrelationships by combining a close formal analysis of the texts with an ethnographic examination of the way in which their telling is accomplished, paying particular attention to the links between form and function. He also illuminates other more general concerns in the study of oral narrative, such as stability and variation in the oral text, the problem of genre, and the rhetorical efficacy of literary forms. As an important contribution to the theoretical and practical literary analysis of orally performed narratives, the book will appeal to students and teachers of folklore, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and literary theory

For the reputation of truth; politics, religion, and conflict among the Pennsylvania Quakers, 1750-1800 by Richard Bauman( Book )

11 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 672 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Let your words be few : symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers by Richard Bauman( Book )

20 editions published between 1983 and 2009 in English and held by 660 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Verbal art as performance by Richard Bauman( Book )

32 editions published between 1974 and 1984 in 3 languages and held by 631 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A world of others' words : cross-cultural perspectives on intertextuality by Richard Bauman( Book )

18 editions published between 2004 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 520 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Drawing on a broad range of oral performances and literary records from Iceland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents an series of ethnographic case studies that offer a look at intertextuality as communicative practice."--Jacket

Folklore and culture on the Texas-Mexican border by Américo Paredes( Book )

9 editions published between 1992 and 1995 in English and Multiple languages and held by 509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

11 scholarly articles by noted authority in the field of folklore & Chicano studies; with a chronological bibliography of Paredes writings. An analytical look at Texas & Mexican social life & customs, exemplified in folk tales