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Richard Bauman is a
folklorist Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...
and
anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...
, now retired from
Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...
Bloomington. He is Distinguished Professor ''emeritus'' of Folklore, of Anthropology, and of Communication and Culture. Before coming to IU in 1985, he was the Director of the Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology (now known as the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies) at the
University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
and a faculty member in the UT Department of Anthropology. Just before retiring from Indiana, he was chair of the IU Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, as well as an important member of the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Communication and Culture. Bauman earned a B.A. with honors and distinction in English from the
University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
. He then earned an M.A. in folklore in 1962 at Indiana University, working closely with W. Edson Richmond and MacEdward Leach, a University of Pennsylvania folklorist then visiting Indiana University. He next went to the Penn, where he received both the M.S. in Anthropology and the Ph.D. in American Civilization in 1968. At Penn he studied with the folklorist and linguistic anthropologist
Dell Hymes Dell Hathaway Hymes (June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon – November 13, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic stu ...
,
Anthony F. C. Wallace Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace (April 15, 1923 – October 5, 2015) was a Canadian-American anthropologist who specialized in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expressed an interest in the intersection of cultural a ...
, a prominent historical and psychological anthropologist, and the historian Lee Benson. He has been influential in a number of different fields, from
performance studies Performance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. The term ''performance'' is broad, and can include artistic and aesthetic performances like concerts, theatrical events, ...
,
linguistic anthropology Linguistic anthropology is the Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past cen ...
, and
Quaker Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
studies to
semiotics Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes ( semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something ...
, the history of anthropology and
folkloristics Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...
. He wrote ''Let Your Words Be Few'', one of the earliest works on
language ideology Language ideology (also known as linguistic ideology or language attitude) is, within anthropology (especially linguistic anthropology), sociolinguistics, and cross-cultural studies, any set of beliefs about languages as they are used in their soc ...
. This book inspired other scholars to begin exploring how people's ideas about how language functions shapes their linguistic practices. More recently, he has co-written a book with Charles L. Briggs ''Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality''. In this book, Bauman and Briggs explore the language ideologies present in the work of Locke and
Herder A herder is a pastoral worker responsible for the care and management of a herd or flock of domestic animals, usually on open pasture. It is particularly associated with nomadic or transhumant management of stock, or with common land grazing. ...
, among others, asking what assumptions about language shaped some of the most important philosophical work of the Enlightenment. Bauman and Briggs won the
Edward Sapir Edward Sapir (; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American Jewish anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States. Sa ...
Prize for this book from the
Society for Linguistic Anthropology The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 members, the association, based in Arlington, Virginia, includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, ...
in November 2006. Bauman has been a
Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
, a Fellow of the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social a ...
, Folklore Fellow of the
Finnish Academy of Sciences The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Finnish ''Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia''; Latin ''Academia Scientiarum Fennica'') is a Finnish learned society. It was founded in 1908 and is thus the second oldest academy in Finland. The oldest is the Fi ...
, and twice holder of
National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...
Fellowships. He is a Fellow of the
American Folklore Society The American Folklore Society (AFS) is the US-based professional association for folklorists, with members from the US, Canada, and around the world, which aims to encourage research, aid in disseminating that research, promote the responsible ...
and in 2008 he was awarded the AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award. In 2016 he was awarded the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology. In addition to Charles L. Briggs, his numerous scholarly collaborators include
Roger D. Abrahams Roger David Abrahams (June 12, 1933 – June 20, 2017) was an American folklorist whose work focused on the expressive cultures and cultural histories of the Americas, with a specific emphasis on African American peoples and traditions. Abrahams ...
,
Joel Sherzer Joel Fred Sherzer (March 18, 1942 – November 6, 2022) was an American anthropological linguist known for his research with the Guna people of Panama and his focus on verbal art and discourse-centered approaches to linguistic research. He co- ...
, Américo Paredes, and his wife, the folklorist and anthropologist Beverly J. Stoeltje.


References


Representative Publications

*Richard Bauman (1983) ''Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism and Silence among Seventeenth Century Quakers''. New York: Cambridge University Press. *Richard Bauman and Charles L. Briggs (1990) "Poetics and Performance as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life." ''Annual Review of Anthropology''. 19:59-88. *Charles L. Briggs and Richard Bauman (1992) "Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power." ''Journal of Linguistic Anthropology''. 2(2):131-72. *Richard Bauman, ed. ''Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centered Handbook''. New York: Oxford University Press. *2003. Voices of modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Richard Bauman and Charles L. Briggs (2003) ''Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality''. New York: Cambridge University Press. *Richard Bauman (2004) ''A World of Others' Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality''. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. *Richard Bauman (2018) "Others’ Words, Others’ Voices: The Making of a Linguistic Anthropologist", Annual Review of Anthropology 47: 1-16.


External links


Official Distinguished Rank Faculty Biography, Indiana University Official Biographical Statement Published by Indiana University Bloomington Upon Richard Bauman's Retirement from the Faculty Richard Bauman papers, 1958-2008
at the Indiana University Archives. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bauman, Richard American folklorists American anthropologists Anthropological linguists Living people University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the Semiotic Society of America