{"product_id":"unlearning-charles-l-briggs-9781646421015","title":"Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge","description":"A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, \u003ci\u003eUnlearning\u003c\/i\u003e questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field, that scholars can disrupt existing social and discourse theories across disciplines when they collaborate with theorists whose insights are not constrained by the bounds of scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eschewing narrow Eurocentric modes of explanation and research foci, Briggs brings together colonialism, health, media, and psychoanalysis to rethink classic work on poetics and performance that revolutionized linguistic anthropology, folkloristics, media studies, communication, and other fields. Beginning with a candid memoir that credits the mentors whose disconcerting insights prompted him to upend existing scholarly approaches, Briggs combines his childhood experiences in New Mexico with his work in graduate school, his ethnography in Venezuela working with Indigenous peoples, and his contemporary work--which is heavily weighted in medical folklore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnlearning\u003c\/i\u003e offers students, emerging scholars, and veteran researchers alike a guide for turning ethnographic objects into provocations for transforming time-worn theories and objects of analysis into sources of scholarly creativity, deep personal engagement, and efforts to confront unconscionable racial inequities. It will be of significant interest to folklorists, anthropologists, and social theorists and will stimulate conversations across these disciplines. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles L. Briggs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646421019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646421015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Utah State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Charles L. Briggs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995342831871,"sku":"9781646421015","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f59f85f2-b063-4456-9bc4-543d2a53bfa5.jpg?v=1683335284","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unlearning-charles-l-briggs-9781646421015","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}