Richard Bauman

Voices of modernity : language ideologies and the politics of inequality

1. Introduction 2. Making language safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Lock 3. Antiquaries and philologists: the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England 4. The critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity 5. Johann Gottfried Herder: language reform, das Volk, and the patriarchal state in eighteenth-century Germany 6. The Brothers Grimm: scientizing, textual production in the service of romantic nationalism 7. Henry Rowe school craft and the making of an American textual tradition 8. The foundation of all future researches: Franz Boas, George Hunt, Native American texts and the construction of modernity 9. Conclusion.

Performance and Honor in 13th-Century Iceland

Three lines of performance-centered analysis may be distingushed in current folkloric and anthropological thought, focusing respectively on performance as practice, the analysis of cultural performances, and the poetics of performance. Employing the third of these as a frame of reference, I analyze the interrelationships between artistic verbal performance and the pursuit of honor in 13th-century Iceland, demonstrating that they constituted a unified semiotic system and suggesting some comparative implications of thesefindings.

American folklore studies and social transformation: A performance‐centered perspective

The invention and development of folklore as a concept in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries may be recognized as a response to the epochal social transformation represented by the advent of modernity. In the study of folklore and social transformation, American folklorists are turning increasingly to performance‐centered perspectives. Three principal foci may be identified in this work, the first two relatively well‐defined as lines of inquiry, the third still in its nascent stages: (1) the poetics of face‐to‐face interaction; (2) the social organization and symbolic structures of public “cultural performances”; and (3) the formative and transformative effects of mediated communication. In addition to illuminating the dynamics of folklore and social transformation, performance‐centered analysis offers a valuable critical and reflexive vantage point on folklorists’ own scholarly practice.

Areal Studies and Culture History: Language as a Key to the Historical Study of Culture Contact

Linguistics has long been recognized as a valuable tool in unraveling culture history. The types of historical linguistic relationships usually focused on, however, are genetic. Diffusional areal relationships provide valuable evidence of communicative contacts among groups and of the nature of this contact. Such relationships can be found in all aspects of language--syntactic-semantic, phonetic, and lexical--as well as in such uses of language as folklore. Examples are drawn from North American Indian languages.

Tradition, Anthropology of

This article is reproduced from the previous edition, volume 23, pp. 15819–15824,

Fundamentos da performance

Neste artigo, esboco as principais concepcoes de performance que tem norteado trabalhos linguisticamente orientados acerca do tema, suas origens e como se relacionam ou divergem. Considero primeiramente o potencial pouco desenvolvido do trabalho orientado para a performance na sociolinguistica variacionista, para depois examinar a performance enquanto exibicao virtuosistica, conforme tem se desenvolvido sobretudo na antropologia linguistica. Em seguida, foco a performance enquanto teatralidade, com atencao especial para a analise da ordem da interacao, bem como a performance cultural como evento destacado e relevado que fornece uma perspectiva ricamente reflexiva sobre a cultura. Concluo com uma discussao sobre a performance mediatizada e a produtividade do conceito de remediatizacao na reducao da distância entre a performance copresente e a performance mediatizada.

Emperors and Lawyers

Preface 1 . The Emperor in the Legal World. 2. Rescripts: System and Style. 3. The Later Principate (193-282 AD). 4. The Age of Diocletian (282-305 AD). Tables. 1. Dated Private Rescripts by Year and Secretary, (193-305 AD). 2. Holders of the Office of Secretary for Petitions (procurator a libellis / magister libellorum) AD 193-305. 3. Table of Words and Phrases Referred to. 4. Table of Legal Texts Referred to. Bibliography. Index. Palingenesia of Latin Private Rescripts 193-305 AD - diskette in pocket of back cover. 5. Not applicable. 6. J100, H225 (Rome). 7. Tony Honore was a Fellow of All Souls and at one time a Fellow of Queens College. He was a Delegate of the Press from 1976-i984. 8. Making Law Bind (OUP, 1987). Causation in the Law (with H.L.A. Hart) 2nd Edition, OUP 1984. Ulpian (Oxford, 1982). Tribonian (London, 1978). 9. No competition. 10. Johnston: The Roman Law of Trusts. 11. SIDA Conference, held annually in August / September each year.