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9780812238419

Everyday Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812238419

  • ISBN10:

    0812238419

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-05-03
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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Summary

"Everyday Life explores the entire range of social gatherings, from chance encounters and casual conversations to well-rehearsed performances in theaters and stadiums. Roger D. Abrahams ties the everyday to those more intense experiences of playful celebration and serious power displays and shows how these seemingly disparate entities are cut from the same cloth of human communication."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Roger D. Abrahams is Hum Rosen Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author and editor of many books, including After Africa (with John Szwed), African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World, African-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World, and Man-of-Words in the West Indies.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(18)
PART I: THE MANY FORMS OF GOODWILL 19(62)
1 Figures of Speech
21(18)
2 Forms in Opposition
39(13)
3 Genres
52(18)
4 Stories
70(11)
PART II: GOODWILL TESTED 81(46)
5 Just Talking/Taking License
83(13)
6 Playing
96(15)
7 Events/Experiences
111(16)
PART III: SOCIAL IMAGINARIES 127(48)
8 Zones and Borders
129(20)
9 Festive Gatherings
149(13)
10 Facing Off at the Border
162(13)
PART IV: TERMS FOR FINDING OURSELVES 175(86)
11 Ethnicities
177(21)
12 Identities
198(19)
13 Creolizations
217(21)
14 Diasporas
238(23)
Bibliography 261(14)
Index 275(6)
Acknowledgments 281

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