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Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability

Journal of American Folklore
:The tourism industry often treats heritage as an objective quality that makes attractions more competitive. This approach would seem to support the sustainability of a culture’s culinary heritage, but it oftentimes ossifies, simplifies, invents, and ...
Lucy M. Long
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Folklore and Folklorism in Kazakhstan

Asian Folklore Studies, 1994
L'analyse de la situation moderne de l'art populaire musical au Kazakhstan a travers la chanson populaire professionnelle, l'art epique et la musique instrumentale montre le role de premier ordre que joue l'art poetique et musical traditionnel. Cela est du a une forte professionnalisation de la tradition orale et a une urbanisation tardive.
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White Folks: Literature’s Uncanny, Unhomely Folklore of Whiteness

Implied Nowhere, 2019
This chapter looks at moments of constructed uncanniness and unhomeliness in Russell Banks’s Affliction and Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding, two American novels in which whiteness is inextricably linked to the creation, through acceptance or rejection, of ...
S. Ingram
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Toward a Definition of Folklore in Practice

The Practice of Folklore, 2019
In the digital age, the twentieth-century definition of folklore as "artistic communication in small groups" is problematic. This chapter cites a need for a practice-oriented definition to account for various phenomena involving tradition that are not ...
Simon J. Bronner
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Festivals and folklore

Practical Pre-School, 2012
Starting this month, Alison Davies will be looking at spiritual and religious festivals from around the globe, and providing some ideas for creative activities that you can use in your sessions.
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Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2007
This article analyzes the concepts of folklore and folklorism and their mutual relations through processes of synchronization. It contributes to the growing thinking about the manifestations of folklore and folklorism worldwide and adds the notion of a thirdhand process of folklorism.
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Something ‘Wyrd’ This Way Comes: Folklore and British Television

Folklore, 2019
Outlining key elements of folk horror, this article discusses the influence of British 1970s television upon post-2000 folk-horror revivalists, arguing that television is of vital importance to social and cultural folklore.
D. Rodgers
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Names and Tales: On Folklore and Place Names

Folklore, 2019
Names, like stories, are linguistic performances; so the twin disciplines of folkloristics and place-name studies can learn from each other’s methods.
J. Harte
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Toward an Enactment-Centered Theory of Folklore

Frontiers of Folklore, 2019
Dyes of the formula I in which A is phenyl or phenyl substituted by chloro, bromo, nitro, methyl, ethyl, methoxy or ethoxy; B1 is hydrogen, chloro, bromo, nitro, methyl or trifluoromethyl; B2 is hydrogen, chloro, bromo or nitro; R is C1 to C4 alkyl; and ...
R. Abrahams
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Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health and Trauma

Folklore, 2019
of Shippey’s text. He gives a little background on Snorri to justify his use of the source, and then goes on to discuss how he will provide ‘as much corroboration as possible . . . from other accounts, while contradictions are also noted’ (211).
V. Newton
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