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.
by Eric Miller, PhD, Folklore, University of Pennsylvania
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