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OverviewWiggling 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: K. Brandon Barker , Claiborne RicePublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253041081ISBN 10: 0253041082 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 22 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface: Zane's Illusion Acknowledgements Accessing Audiovisual Materials 1. Everyone Knows that Seeing is (not always) Believing 2. Four Forms of Folk Illusions 3. Folk Illusions and the Social Activation of Embodiment 4. Folk Illusions and Active Perception 5. Folk Illusions and the Weight of the World 6. Folk Illusions and the Face in the Mirror or The Boundaries of a Genre 7. Folk Illusions, Development, and Body Acquisition Appendix: Catalog of Folk Illusions Bibliography IndexReviewsThis 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 Author InformationK. Brandon Barker is Lecturer in Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington. Claiborne Rice is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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