Table of Contents

Richard Bauman: INTRODUCTION
BASIC CONCEPTS
Richard Bauman: Folklore
Asa Briggs: Culture
Richard Bauman: Performance
John Blacking: Ethnomusicology
Dennis Tedlock: Ethnopoetics
Mahadev L. Apte: Humor
Jack Goody: Oral culture
Trevor Lummis: Oral history
Andrew W. Miracle: Play
VERBAL GENRES
Dan Ben-Amos: Folktale
Donald Brenneis: Gossip
Roger D. Abrahams: Insult
Ruth Finnegan: Oral Poetry
Alessandro Duranti: Oratory
Galit Hasan-Rokem: Proverb
Thomas A. Green: Riddle
Marcia Herndon: Song
John Holmes McDowell: Speech play
NONVERBAL FORMS
Barbara A. Babcock: Artifact
Werner Enninger: Clothing
Adrienne L. Kaeppler: Dance
Judith Goode: Food
Adam Kendon: Gesture
Elizabeth Tonkin: Mask
Jeff Todd Tilton: Music, folk and traditional
CULTURAL PERFORMANCES
Richard Schechner: Drama, performance
Beverly J. Stoeltje: Festival
Richard Bauman: Genre
Anya Peterson Royce: Mime
Peter D. Arnott: Puppetry
Roy A. Rappaport: Ritual
Frank E. Manning: Spectacle
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Edward M. Bruner: Tourism

Reviews

"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