Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices

by Roger D. Abrahams

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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 and the substrate of mutual understandings carried around as part of our own cultural longings and belongings.

Everyday Life explores the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812238419

ISBN13:9780812238419

Release Date:May 2005

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Cultural Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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