Open AccessComplicity and Imitation in Storytelling: A Pragmatic Folklorist's Perspective
Author(s) -
Abrahams Roger D.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.1525/can.1986.1.2.02a00070
Subject(s) - complicity , storytelling , perspective (graphical) , imitation , sociology , folkloristics , epistemology , aesthetics , narrative , linguistics , psychology , anthropology , philosophy , art , folklore , social psychology , visual arts , political science , law
Experience is a process that continually gives us new material to digest. We handle this intellectually by the mass of beliefs of which we find ourselves already possessed, assimilating, rejecting, or rearranging in different degrees. Some … are recent acquisitions of our own, but most of them are common‐sense traditions of the race.