Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices

by Roger D. Abrahams

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"