Stéphanie Homola is Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the French Research Institute for Eastern Asia (IFRAE). She was previously Assistant Professor for Ethnology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Director of the Elite Master's Program "Standards of Decision-Making across Cultures".
A Most Valuable Medium brings an exquisitely tuned analytical ear to a rich collection of understudied but foundational media performances. Richard Bauman's seminal approach to verbal performance sheds new light on commercial recordings at the dawn of modern media, providing a model of historically specific intermedial scholarship and producing a cornucopia of insights about how sales pitches, political oratory, storytelling, and sermons were adapted for the phonograph. A most valuable
This welcome collection brings into clear relief just how foundational Dan Ben-Amos's writings have been to modern folklore thought. His complementary efforts at elucidating the history of the discipline and at charting new directions for the future, brought conveniently together in this volume, forge a powerful intellectual synthesis that will stand as a model for years to come.
Acknowledgments
Essays
Prologue: The Vision Behind Muslim Voices / Hilary Kahn
Chapter 1. Reflecting on Muslim Voices / Rosemary Pennington
Chapter 2. Shattering the Muslim Monolith / Arsalan Iftikhar
Chapter 3. So Near, Yet So Far: An Academic Reflection on the Endurance of American Islamophobia / Peter Gottschalk
Chapter 4. Life as a Muslim in the Media / Zarqa Nawaz
Chapter 5. The Prisons of Paradigm / Rafia Z
Ulla Moilanen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, specialized in burial practices in Early Medieval and Medieval Finland.
Annemari Tranberg (PhD) is an archaeologist and macrofossil researcher. She specializes in environmental and historical archaeology, archeoentomology, garden history, industrial environments, and culture of death. She works as an archaeologist at the Museu