Verbal art across cultures
Subtitle: the aesthetics and proto-aesthetics of communication
By: edited by Hubert Knoblauch and Helga Kotthoff.
Contributors: Knoblauch, Hubert.; Kotthoff, Helga.
Series: Literatur und Anthropologie -- Bd. 10
Publisher: Narr
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Communication and culture.; Aesthetics.
Notes: Based on papers presented at a conference held 1999, University of Konstanz.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Not the message" : media, meanings, and magicality / Ruth Finnegan; title: Genres of conquest : from literature to science in colonial African linguistics / Judith T. Irvine; title: Mediational performance, tradionalization, and the authorization of discourse / Richard Bauman; title: Of dentistry and artistry / Neil Roughley; title: The narration "instinct" : everyday talk and aesthetic forms of communcation (in communities of the New Guinea mountains) / Volker Heeschen; title: Aesthetic dimensions of Georgian grief rituals / Helga Kotthoff; title: Genres and the aesthetics of advertisement spots / Hubert Knoblauch and Jürgen Raab; title: The proto-aesthetics of imperatives / Greg Urban; title: On the genesis and the destiny of proverbs / Ruth Ayass; title: "Adding jade and pearls to one's speech" : aesthetic and interactive functions of proverbs in Chinese and German interaction / Susanne Günthner; title: The aesthetic dimensions of oral performances in the early Middle Ages / Michael Richter; title: Configuring exhibits / Dirk vom Lehn, Christian Heath, and Hubert Knoblauch.