Everyday life a poetics of vernacular practices /

Abrahams, Roger D.

Everyday life a poetics of vernacular practices / [electronic resource] : Roger D. Abrahams. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005. - viii, 286 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index.

pt. 1. The many forms of goodwill -- pt. 2. Goodwill tested -- pt. 3. Social imaginaries -- pt. 4. Terms for finding ourselves.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780812200997 (electronic bk.)




Culture--Semiotic models.
Manners and customs.
Anthropological linguistics.


Electronic books.

GN357 / .A27 2005

306/.01