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Richard Bauman: "Narrative Performance"
Date
Wed May 11th 2011, 3:00pm
Location
Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Room
216
216
Speaker(s): Richard Bauman
Richard Bauman will be conducting a Workshop hosted by the Performance Focal Group onÌýMay 11, 3pm-5pm in Pigott Hall (Building 260), Room 216.
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*Please
email ierman [at] stanford.edu (ierman[at]stanford[dot]edu)
for advance
readings
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Richard
Bauman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Folklore,
Anthropology, and Communication and Culture at the University of
Indiana, Bloomington. Professor Bauman is a folklorist,
ethnomusicologist, and anthropologist, with a truly
interdisciplinary volume of work. He has made important
contributions to the field of performance studies through the
ethnographic study of language and
performance.
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His books
include:ÌýVerbal Art as
PerformanceÌý(1977);ÌýLet Your
Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence Among
Seventeenth-Century
QuakersÌý(1983);ÌýStory,
Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral
Narrative (1986);ÌýVoices of Modernity:
Language Ideologies and the Production of Social
InequalityÌý(with Charles L. Briggs, 2003), which
won the Edward Sapir Prize; andÌýA World of
Others’ Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on
IntertextualityÌý(2004).
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Co-sponsored
by the Department of
Anthropology