The Rhetoric of Soul: Identification in Negro Society

ULF HANNERZ is at the Institute of Ethnography, University of Stockholm, Sweden. He has done field work among lower-class Negroes in connection with the Urban Language Study project of the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 1966-8. The study on which this paper is based was made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to that project. An earlier version of this paper was read at the Fifth Meeting of Scandinavian Anthropologists in Bergen, Norway, in June 1967. I