Folk Illusions

Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception

AvK. Brandon Barker,Claiborne Rice

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, "stealing" your niece's nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell– these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities. In this groundbreaking study, K. Brandon Barker and Claiborne Rice argue that these easily overlooked instances of children's folklore offer an important avenue for studying perception and cognition in the contexts of social and embodied development. Folk illusions are traditionalized verbal and/or physical actions that are performed with the intention of creating a phantasm for one or more participants. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the ethnographic methods of folklore with the empirical data of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology, Barker and Rice catalogue over eighty discrete folk illusions while exploring the complexities of embodied perception. Taken together as a genre of folklore, folk illusions show that people, starting from a young age, possess an awareness of the illusory tendencies of perceptual processes as well as an awareness that the distinctions between illusion and reality are always communally formed.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253041098
Utmärkelser:Winner of Iona and Peter Opie Prize for Books on Children’s Folklore 2020 (United States)

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K. Brandon Barker is Lecturer in Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington.Claiborne Rice is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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"With clear focal points, sound and carefully explained methodology, and thought-provoking, substantial analysis, this book makes an excellent contribution to children's folklore and related fields."—Elizabeth Tucker, author of Children's Folklore: A Handbook"Barker and Rice, the contemporary Brothers Grimm of illusions, have assembled and systematized a compilation of folk illusions, thanks to a painstaking process of recording children's reports and adult recollections, and by directly observing interactions among kids."—Susana Martinez-Conde, author (with Stephen L. Macknik and Sandra Blakeslee) of Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions"This book explores much deeper issues of psychology and even deeper neurology. Just when we thought we knew everything there is to know about our own bodies and their responses, we can have new and surprising experiences engendered by simple little tricks. This learned, encyclopedic, and well-referenced examination fully realizes the authors' aim of establishing these phenomena as a genre of folklore in its own right."—Janet E. Alton, Folklore"Throughout the book, Barker and Rice make a compelling argument not only for the inclu-sion of folk illusions as its own genre, but also for interdisciplinary research to explore issues of perception and belief."—Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera, Journal of American Folklore

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Preface: Zane's IllusionAcknowledgementsAccessing Audiovisual Materials1. Everyone Knows that Seeing is (not always) Believing2. Four Forms of Folk Illusions3. Folk Illusions and the Social Activation of Embodiment4. Folk Illusions and Active Perception5. Folk Illusions and the Weight of the World6. Folk Illusions and the Face in the Mirror or The Boundaries of a Genre7. Folk Illusions, Development, and Body AcquisitionAppendix: Catalog of Folk IllusionsBibliographyIndex