
He traces forms of mundane experience and the substrate of mutual understandings carried around as part of our own cultural longings and belongings.Įveryday Life explores the entire range of social gatherings, from chance encounters and casual conversations to well-rehearsed performances in theaters and stadiums. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D.
