Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture

by Robert S. Cantwell

Book Overview

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, traditions, and practices to ourselves and then manifest them to others. Ethnomimesis is an element of ordinary social communication, but springing out of it, too, is that extraordinary summoning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807844241
• ISBN13: 9780807844243
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"