Richard Bauman: "Narrative Performance"

Date
Wed May 11th 2011, 3:00pm
Location
Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Room
216

Speaker(s): Richard Bauman

Richard Bauman will be conducting a Workshop hosted by the Performance Focal Group on May 11, 3pm-5pm in Pigott Hall (Building 260), Room 216.

 
*Please email ierman [at] stanford.edu (ierman[at]stanford[dot]edu) for advance readings
 
 
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.
 
His books include: Verbal Art as Performance (1977); Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers (1983); Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative (1986); Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Production of Social Inequality (with Charles L. Briggs, 2003), which won the Edward Sapir Prize; and A World of Others’ Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality (2004).
 
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology