Folk Illusions - by K Brandon Barker & Claiborne Rice (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. This book explores the ways kids use traditional illusions, such as the rubber pencil illusion created by wiggling a horizontal pencil up and down in front of one's face, in their play. </p> <p>2. This is ground-breaking work that brings together folklore methods of studying children's traditional games with neuroscience and psychology. </p> <p>3. Contains a catalog of all 65 discrete forms of folk illusions, including many that have not been previously identified, giving researchers rich ground for better understanding brain development and perception in childhood.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>This book explores much deeper issues of psychology and even deeper neurology. Just when we thought we knew everything there is to know about our own bodies and their responses, we can have new and surprising experiences engendered by simple little tricks. This learned, encyclopedic, and well-referenced examination fully realizes the authors' aim of establishing these phenomena as a genre of folklore in its own right.</p>--Janet E. Alton "Folklore"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>K. Brandon Barker is Lecturer in Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington.</p> <p></p> <p>Claiborne Rice is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.</p></p>
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