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Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception

Name: Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception
Brand: Indiana University Press
SKU: 9780253041098
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Contributors:

K. Brandon Barker, Claiborne Rice

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Games & Activities, Science

Book Subcategory:

Folklore & Mythology, Optical Illusions, Life Sciences

Book Topic:

Neuroscience

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Release Date:

2019-04-22

ISBN 13:

9780253041098

Weight:

0.79 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inches

Pages:

264

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Wiggling 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.

About the Author

K. Brandon Barker is Lecturer in Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Claiborne Rice is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.