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Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities

Journal of American Folklore
:The “Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities” salons were organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Participants were clear-eyed about the damage to the integrity of cultural practices and community life that is often ...
Robert Baron, Mary Hufford, Amy Shuman
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PROBLEMS OF PUBLISHING AND COMMENTING ON RUSSIAN MAGICAL FOLKLORE

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics
In fact, verbal charms represent two different genres and bodies of texts, one of which functions in the oral, folklore tradition, and the other in the “grassroots” handwritten tradition. Accordingly, researchers and publishers of verbal charms are quite
A. Toporkov
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The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni

Journal of American Folklore
:A cherished Sri Lankan tradition comprising tales from different regions, stories about Kuweni recount how Prince Vijaya from North India took power in Sri Lanka with the help of Kuweni, a native young woman. This study introduces a qualitative thematic
S. Thilakarathne, S. Gopura, A. Wickramasinghe, A. Payne   +3 more
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BOGATYREV AND JAKOBSON’S ARTICLE ON FOLKLORE AS A SPECIAL FORM OF CREATION: HOW IS THAT IN RUSSIAN?

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics
The article is dedicated to the first-ever publication of the Russianauthored text by P.G. Bogatyrev and R.O. Jakobson, “Folklore as a Special Form of Creation”, previously only known in Russian through a translation from German.
Mikhail L. Lurie
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COLLECTION OF SONGBOOKS AT THE CENTRE FOR TYPOLOGICAL AND SEMIOTIC FOLKLORE STUDIES RSUH: TYPOLOGICAL AND GENRE CHARACTERISTICS

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics
The tradition of keeping songbooks emerged in the late 18th century and was particularly popular in Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Notebooks with songs, texts of classical literature, wishes, and messages were maintained by schoolgirls, military ...
Uliana A. Petukhova
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Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction

Journal of American Folklore
:Though they tend to occupy separate universes of discourse, public folklore and heritage studies share areas of common concern, including authority and ownership of cultural objects, power asymmetries, safeguarding and sustainability, and the ...
Robert Baron, Mary Hufford, Amy Shuman
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Folklore, Disability, and Plain Language: The Problem of Consent

Journal of American Folklore
:This is an essay about consent and the importance of using plain language. Consent means someone gives someone else permission to do something. When we do research, we ask for consent from the people we study. We explain what we are trying to understand
Amy Shuman, Olivia Caldeira
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Rewilding My Brain: Folklore, Disability, and the Non-human World

Journal of American Folklore
:The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that one in four people in the United States currently lives with a disability. Such a prominent folk group—sixty-one million people—deserves more serious scholarly attention and engagement by ...
Traci Cox
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The Legend of the Naked Dead: Apparitions and Proper Burial in Latter-day Saint Folklore

Journal of American Folklore
:This article introduces the Latter-day Saint "legend of the naked dead," which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a widely known story emphasizing the importance of proper burial, including the ritual clothing of the dead.
C. Blythe
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A sociological perspective on making South African tourism monumental through folklore

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science, 2023
Mlamli Diko
exaly