Mapping The History Of Folklore Studies

Author : Dace Bula,Sandis Laime
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443892674

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Mapping the History of Folklore Studies by Dace Bula,Sandis Laime Pdf

This collection of articles provides rich and diverse insights into the historical dynamics of folkloristic thought with its shifting geographies, shared spaces, centres and borderlands. By focusing on intellectual collaboration and sharing, the volume also reveals the limitations, barriers and boundaries inherent in scholarship and scholarly communities. Folklore scholars from Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, and the USA reflect upon a range of related questions, including: To what extent and in what sense can folklore studies be regarded as a shared field of knowledge? Which lines of authority have held it together and what forces have led to segmentation? How have the hierarchies of intellectual centres and peripheries shifted over time? Do national or regional styles of scholarly practice exist in folkloristics? The contributors here pay attention to individual personalities, the politics and economics of scholarship, and forms of communication as meaningful contexts for discussing the dynamics of folklore theory and methods.

Author : Sadhana Naithani
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496823588

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Folklore in Baltic History by Sadhana Naithani Pdf

Folklore in the Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence is about the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the contemporary history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—together called the Baltic countries. They were occupied by Russia, by Germany, and lastly by the USSR at the end of the Second World War. They regained freedom in 1991. The period under the rule of the USSR brought several changes to their societies and cultures. Individuals and institutions dealing with folklore—archives, university departments, and folklorists—came under special control, attack, and surveillance. Some of the pioneer folklorists escaped to other countries, but many others witnessed their institutions and the meaning of folklore studies transformed. The USSR did not stop folklore studies but led the field to new methods. In spite of all the pressure, folklore continued to be a matter of identity, and folksongs became the marching songs of crowds resisting Soviet control in the late 1980s. Since independence in 1991, folklore scholars and institutions revamped and reconstituted folkloristics. Today all three countries have many active scholars and institutions. Sadhana Naithani recounts this resilient arc through an intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of research. She combines the study of written works, archival documents, life-stories, and conversations with folklorists, ethnologists, archivists, and historians in Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius. She recorded conversations on video, creating current reflections on issues of the recent past. Based on the study of life-stories and oral history projects, Naithani juxtaposes the history of folkloristics and the life of the folk in the Soviet period of the Baltic countries. The result is this dramatic, first-ever history of Baltic folkloristics.

Author : Patricia Sawin,Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253052889

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Folklore in the United States and Canada by Patricia Sawin,Rosemary Levy Zumwalt Pdf

To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before. Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United States and Canada. As the first history of folklore studies since the mid-1980s, this book offers a long overdue look into the development of the earliest programs and the novel directions of more recent programs. The volume is encyclopedic in its coverage and is organized chronologically based on the approximate founding date of each program. Drawing extensively on archival sources, oral histories, and personal experience, the contributors explore the key individuals and central events in folklore programs at US and Canadian academic institutions and demonstrate how these programs have been shaped within broader cultural and historical contexts. Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential read for all folklorists and those who are studying to become folklorists.

Author : Sahdev Luhar
Publisher : N. S. Patel (Autonomous) Arts College, Anand
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788195500840

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Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses by Sahdev Luhar Pdf

Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses is an interesting compilation of twenty-eight critical articles on the beginning of folklore studies in the different parts of India. In the absence of a book that could map the history of Indian folklore studies single-handedly, this book can be deemed as the first-of-its-kind to feature the historical development of folklore studies in the different states of India. This book succinctly introduces the readers to the folk culture, folk arts, and folk genres of a particular region and to the different aspects of folkloristic researches carried out in that region.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496822666

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The Practice of Folklore by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, often characterized as folklore. In The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition, author Simon J. Bronner works with theories of cultural practice to explain the social and psychological need for tradition in everyday life. Bronner proposes a distinctive “praxic” perspective that will answer the pressing philosophical as well as psychological question of why people enjoy repeating themselves. The significance of the keyword practice, he asserts, is the embodiment of a tension between repetition and variation in human behavior. Thinking with practice, particularly in a digital world, forces redefinitions of folklore and a reorientation toward interpreting everyday life. More than performance or enactment in social theory, practice connects localized culture with the vernacular idea that “this is the way we do things around here.” Practice refers to the way those things are analyzed as part of, rather than apart from, theory, thus inviting the study of studying. “The way we do things” invokes the social basis of “doing” in practice as cultural and instrumental. Building on previous studies of tradition in relation to creativity, Bronner presents an overview of practice theory and the ways it might be used in folklore and folklife studies. Demonstrating the application of this theory in folkloristic studies, Bronner offers four provocative case studies of psychocultural meanings that arise from traditional frames of action and address issues of our times: referring to the boogieman; connecting “wild child” beliefs to school shootings; deciphering the offensive chants of sports fans; and explicating male bravado in bawdy singing. Turning his analysis to the analysts of tradition, Bronner uses practice theory to evaluate the agenda of folklorists in shaping perceptions of tradition-centered “folk societies” such as the Amish. He further unpacks the culturally based rationale of public folklore programming. He interprets the evolving idea of folk museums in a digital world and assesses how the folklorists' terms and actions affect how people think about tradition.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106007544635

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American Folklore Studies by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

Author : Giuseppe Cocchiara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Folklore
ISBN : OCLC:1101211308

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The History of Folklore in Europe by Giuseppe Cocchiara Pdf

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101637999

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A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry Brotton Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the warrior to plan his campaigns and the propagandist to boost his cause… rich and beautiful.” – Wall Street Journal Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by considering it in all its nuances and omissions, we can better understand the world that produced it. Although the way we map our surroundings is more precise than ever before, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been. Readers of this beautifully illustrated and masterfully argued book will never look at a map in quite the same way again. “A fascinating and panoramic new history of the cartographer’s art.” – The Guardian “The intellectual background to these images is conveyed with beguiling erudition…. There is nothing more subversive than a map.” – The Spectator “A mesmerizing and beautifully illustrated book.” —The Telegraph

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781846145704

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton Pdf

Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series 'Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession'. Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world - whether the Jerusalem-centred Christian perspective of the 14th century Hereford Mappa Mundi or the Peters projection of the 1970s which aimed to give due weight to 'the third world'. Although the way we map our surroundings is once more changing dramatically, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been - but that they continue to make arguments and propositions about the world, and to recreate, shape and mediate our view of it. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.

Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111559537

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Folklore and traditional history by Richard M. Dorson Pdf

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Author : Kent C. Ryden
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1587292084

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Mapping the Invisible Landscape by Kent C. Ryden Pdf

Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence ofOCounless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book. Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent RydenOCohimself a most careful listener and readerOCoasks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive or negative, to its meanings and memories. Ryden demonstrates that both folk and literary narratives about place bear a striking thematic and stylistic resemblance. Accordingly, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" examines both kinds of narratives. For his oral materials, Ryden provides an in-depth analysis of narratives collected in the Coeur d'Alene mining district in the Idaho panhandle; for his consideration of written works, he explores the OC essay of place, OCO the personal essay which takes as its subject a particular place and a writer's relationship to that place. Drawing on methods and materials from geography, folklore, and literature, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" offers a broadly interdisciplinary analysis of the way we situate ourselves imaginatively in the landscape, the way we inscribe its surface with stories. Written in an extremely engaging style, this book will lead its readers to an awareness of the vital role that a sense of place plays in the formation of local cultures, to an understanding of the many-layered ways in which place interacts with individual lives, and to renewed appreciation of the places in their own lives and landscapes."

Author : Les Roberts
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 9783038421658

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Deep Mapping by Les Roberts Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Deep Mapping" that was published in Humanities

Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226158716

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Folklore and Folklife by Richard M. Dorson Pdf

Describes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:39000005581181

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American Folklore Studies by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110803099

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Folklore in the Modern World by Richard M. Dorson Pdf

Papers presented at the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.