![]() Beginning with a candid memoir that credits the mentors whose disconcerting insights prompted him to upend existing scholarly approaches, Briggs combines his childhood experiences in New Mexico with his work in graduate school, his ethnography in Venezuela working with Indigenous peoples, and his contemporary work-which is heavily weighted in medical folklore. ![]() Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field, that scholars can disrupt existing social and discourse theories across disciplines when they collaborate with theorists whose insights are not constrained by the bounds of scholarship.Įschewing narrow Eurocentric modes of explanation and research foci, Briggs brings together colonialism, health, media, and psychoanalysis to rethink classic work on poetics and performance that revolutionized linguistic anthropology, folkloristics, media studies, communication, and other fields. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs.Ī provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. ![]() Utah State University Press recently published Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge by Charles L. ![]()
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