The Blacksmith’s Feet

Vernacular poetry is generally evaluated according to culturally specific aesthetic standards, what anthropologists call ethnopoetics. This article offers embodied entexualization—the culturally specific ways bodies are incorporated into as well as produce texts—as a means for analyzing how ethnopoe...

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Published in:Representations (Berkeley, Calif.) Calif.), 2017-02, Vol.137 (1), p.68-87
Main Author: Cavanaugh, Jillian R.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Vernacular poetry is generally evaluated according to culturally specific aesthetic standards, what anthropologists call ethnopoetics. This article offers embodied entexualization—the culturally specific ways bodies are incorporated into as well as produce texts—as a means for analyzing how ethnopoetic systems reflect social and political histories and contexts. The poetry of the northern Italian town of Bergamo, and specifically a poem by a locally celebrated poet, Piero Frér, provides an illustrative case.
ISSN:0734-6018
1533-855X
DOI:10.1525/rep.2017.137.1.68