Legacy of Dell Hymes

Paul V. Kroskrity is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of American Indian Studies at UCLA, where he has taught since earning his PhD in anthropology from Indiana University in 1978. He has authored numerous works including Regimes of Language and Telling Stories in the Face of Danger. Anthony K. Webster is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics as well as numerous articles on Navajo poetry, language, and culture.

• Introduction"Introducing Ethnopoetics: Hymes's Legacy," Anthony K. Webster and Paul V. Kroskrity[section] Listening for Voices1 "Reinventing Ethnopoetics," Robert Moore "The Patterning of Style: Indices of Performance through2 Ethnopoetic Analysis of Century-Old Wax Cylinders," Alexander D. King3 " 'Grow with That, Walk with That': Hymes, Dialogicality, and Text Collections," M. Eleanor Nevins4 " 'The Validity of Navajo Is in Its Sounds': On Hymes, Navajo Poetry, Punning, and the Recognition of Voice," Anthony K. Webster5 "Discursive Discriminations in the Representation of Western Mono and Yokuts Stories: Confronting Narrative Inequality and Listening to Indigenous Voices in Central California," Paul V. Kroskrity6 "Discovery and Dialogue in Ethnopoetics," Richard Bauman[section] Ethnopoetic Pathways 7 "The Poetics of Language Revitalization: Text, Performance, and Change," Gerald L. Carr and Barbra Meek8 "Translating Oral Literature in Indigenous Societies: Ethnic Aesthetic Performances in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings," Sean Patrick O'Neill9 "Ethnopoetics and Ideologies of Poetic Truth," David W. Samuels10 "Contested Mobilities: On the Politics and Ethnopoetics of Circulation," Charles L. BriggsIndex

The contributors to this volume have not only revivified ethnopoetics as a research project in the contemporary moment; they have also pointed the way to fruitful lines of folkloristic research and collaboration in the future, lines founded on the importance of measured and allusive speech and that build on Dell hymes' commitment to the voices of marginalized peoples. (Journal of American Folklore)