Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1993 - 323 oldal
Wide-ranging and provocative, this book will fascinate all those intrigued by how we create and perpetuate our representations of folklife and culture. Ethnomimesis is Robert Cantwell's word for the process by which we take cultural influences, tra

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On Ethnomiesis
1
Poor Tom Folklore and Power in King Lear
9
The Ogre in the Idle Enclosures Gardens and Festival Market
32
Of Kings Treasuries The National Museum
49
Cafe Tunis The Sites of Culture
85
Duncans Hat A Festival Notebook
124
The Ink Spots Folklife and Stereotype
150
Queen of the Spelling Bee
185
Falling in love Ideology Memory Festivity
213
The Empire of Ice Cream A Poetics of Recognition
249
A Poetics of Recognition
301
References
313
Index
319
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Robert Cantwell is visiting associate professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound.

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