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