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Author Briggs, Charles L., 1953- author.

Title Unlearning : rethinking poetics, pandemics, and the politics of knowledge / Charles L. Briggs
Published Louisville, Colorado : Utah State University Press, an imprint of University Press of Colorado, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 336 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Disciplining folkloristics -- Contested mobilities : on the politics and ethnopoetics of circulation -- What we should have learned from Américo paredes : the politics of communicability and the making of folkloristics -- The coloniality of folklore : toward a multi-genealogical practice of folkloristics (with Sadhana Naithani) -- Rethinking psychoanalysis, poetics, and performance -- Dear Dr. Freud -- Toward a new folkloristics of health -- Moving beyond "the media" : from traditionalization to mediatization -- Germ wordfare : the poetic production of medical panics -- From progressive extractivism to phyto-socialism : trees, bodies, and discrepant phytocommunicabilities in a mysterious epidemic
Summary "A provocative theoretical synthesis, Briggs questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths. Through a look back at his own works as well as critical readings, 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 19, 2021)
Subject Folklorists.
Folklore -- Study and teaching
Mass media and folklore.
Applied folklore -- Study and teaching
Communication in folklore.
Social Science -- General.
Social Science -- Folklore & Mythology.
Medical -- History.
Communication in folklore
Folklore -- Study and teaching
Folklorists
Mass media and folklore
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021001140
ISBN 9781646421022
1646421027