"Grow with That, Walk with That": Hymes, Dialogicality, and Text Collections

• Autores: M Eleanor Nevins
• Localización: Journal of Folklore Research, ISSN-e 1543-0413, Vol. 50, Nº. 1-3, 2013, págs. 79-116
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article, elaborates upon Dell Hymes's contributions to dialogic anthropology by comparing two accounts of Apache lives, one spoken by Lawrence Mithlo to Harry Hoijer and published in a 1938 text collection, and another spoken by Eva Lupe to the author in 1996. First, the author show that, neither account is cast by its speaker as neutral information; rather, both are extensions of an oratorical genre labeled bahadziih, through which the speaker presents a group with which she identifies to an audience that includes those figured as other. Through bahadziih the speaker attempts to transform the relationship between her own group and the addressed others by first invoking what she anticipates to be the image held of her group from the other's point of view and then posing terms for its transformation. By contrast, considerations of genre and addressivity introduced via Hymes's ethnography of communication and ethnopoetics enable a latter-day recognition of the terms of mediation utilized by persons like Mithlo and Lupe to address researchers in ethnographic dialogues.