Ten Articles by Roger D. Abrahams
1
“Introductory Remarks to a Rhetorical Theory Of Folklore.”
1968. Journal of American Folklore 81 (319): 143-58.
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2
“A Rhetoric Of Everyday Life: Traditional Conversational Genres.”
1968. Southern Folklore Quarterly 32: 44-59.
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3
“The Complex Relations of Simple Forms.”
1976. In Folklore Genres, Dan Ben-Amos, ed., Austin: U.
of Texas Press, pp. 193-214. [Originally printed in Genre
2, 2 (June 1969): 104-28.]
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4
“Toward an Enactment-Centered Theory of Folklore.”
1977. In The Frontiers of Folklore, William Bascom, ed.,
Wash., D.C.: American Anthropological Association Series, pp. 79-120.
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5
“Towards a Sociological Theory of Folklore.”
1978. In Working Americans, Robert Byington, ed., Los
Angeles: California Folklore Society, pp. 19-42.
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6
“Folklore.”
1980. In Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups,
Stephan Thernstrom, ed., Cambridge: Belnap Press, pp. 370-9.
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7
“In and Out of Performance.”
1981. In Folklore and Oral Communication (special issue
of Narodna Umjetnost, Yugolsalvia), pp. 69-78.
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8
“Ordinary and Extraordinary Experience.”
1981. In The Anthropology of Experience, Victor Turner,
ed. Chicago: U. of Illinois Press, pp. 45-72.
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9
“Play and Games.”
1982. Motif: International Review of Research in Folklore
and Literature (Columbus, Ohio), 3 (June): 4-7.
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10
“Our Native Notions of Story.”
1985. New York Folklore 11 (1-4): 37-47.
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Key-terms, summaries, and overlaps.
Eric Miller, Ph.D. candidate, Folklore, University of Pennsylvania
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