2. DEFINITION OF ETHNOPOETICS
Ethnopoetics is a method of recording text
versions of oral poetry or narrative performances
(verbal lore) that uses poetic lines, verses, and
stanzas (instead of prose paragraphs) to capture
the formal, poetic performance elements which
would otherwise be lost in the written texts.
4. Ethnopoetic poetry
The writing of poetry inspired by distant
reaches of the world sample should be included
at the outset of ethnopoetic theorizing. It is the
alpha of maximally intuitive and emotional
synthesis versus the omega of objective
criticism and analysis.
5. Ethnopoetics Translation
The translation harvest or often hunting and
gathering, or just poaching, accelerated greatly
during the nineteenth century partly as a result of
massive contact with Native American, African,
Asian, and Near Eastern literatures, both written
and oral, within the ideologies of Western
Romanticism.
7. Ethnographic or Cultural Ethnopoetics
Contemporaneous and entangled with
linguistic ethnopoetics have been the many
analyses by diverse anthropologists and some
other social scientists of the cultural orchestration,
content, contexts and functions of more or less
poetic texts â and the poetics of texts that do not
seem to be poetic.
8. Anthropological theory
Anthropology is the scientific study of
humans, past and present, that draws and
builds upon knowledge from the social
sciences, life sciences, and humanities.
9. In these and myriad other instances,
ethnopoetics in its interface with
anthropological theory has been laced by
detailed documentation and analyses of
verbal and other evidence.
10. Metapoetics and Poetic Revolution
The final meaning of âethnopoeticsâ is also the first
that many would think of when trying to define this protean
term: âethnopoeticsâ is that part of a societyâs ideas that
deal with the construction and interpretation of its poetry
and poetic language generally, or, more exactly, with the
forms, functions and meanings of poetry in its narrower
senses â lyric, or epic, tale or fable, parable or riddle.
11. Political Ethnopoetics
Politics, like ethnopoetics, is
concerned with âthe creation of
relations and interactions betweenâ
â analogously â politics in a generic
sense, a social group with its
culture, and the individual or
âagentâ.
12. Conclusion
Ethnopoetics is a text version of the
method of recording or performing oral
narrative poetry that uses poetic lines,
paragraphs, and a temple to capture the
element of poetic performance. It discusses
the development and interaction between
poetic language, the social group, and the
individual.