Richard Bauman (1) (1940–)

Author of Let your words be few : symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers

For other authors named Richard Bauman, see the disambiguation page.

About the Author

Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Communication and Culture, and Anthropology and Director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Works by Richard Bauman

Verbal Art As Performance (1978) 61 copies

Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative (1986) 46 copies

Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking (1975) 44 copies

Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality (2003) 30 copies

Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-centered Handbook (1992) 27 copies

A World of Others' Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality (2004) 22 copies

For the reputation of truth; politics, religion, and conflict among the Pennsylvania Quakers, 1750-1800 (1971) 15 copies

Reflections on the Folklife Festival: An Ethnography of Participant Experience (Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University) (1992) 10 copies

And Other Neighborly Names: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore (1981) — Editor — 8 copies

Speaking in [the] light : [the] dilemma of [the] Quaker minister. Quaker pamphlet 3 2 copies

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Associated Works

Teaching Oral Traditions (1998) — Contributor — 21 copies

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17th century (3) anthropological linguistics (3) anthropology (20) ethnography (9) folklore (20) history (5) intertextuality (3) language (6) linguistic anthropology (9) linguistics (17) Meeting for Worship (3) Ministry (5) narrative (4) non-fiction (4) performance (9) performance theory (5) Quaker (6) Quaker history (12) Quakerism (4) Quakers (11) religion (9) RM (2) shelf 1.c (2) silence (8) sociolinguistics (4) storytelling (5) Theology (3) theory (6) vocal ministry (5) Worship (3)

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Birthdate: 1940
Gender: male

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Let your words be few : symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers by Richard Bauman

This book offers a fresh and striking insight into early Quaker history through a study of their distinctive ways of speaking, which together with their use of silence, served as a specific identifying feature of the movement.

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Let your words be few by Richard Bauman

gift of Johann Davies

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