Dell Hymes: 3 books

Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...

This collection of work addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in education makes to anthropology and linguistics.; The first section of the book pinpoints characteristics of anthropology that most make a difference to research...

An enlightening text for the studies on mythology and folklore. The importance of performance in the organization and realization of the tradition. Rituals and ceremonies are social events with emerging semiotic properties which the expert participants consider describable and interpretable, repeatable...