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Constituting Folklore: A Case for Critical Folklore Studies [PDF]
Journal of American Folklore, 2009 Abstract This article argues for the development of a critical folklore studies through an interweaving of folklore and rhetorical theory. Following paths set by Roger Abrahams, Kenneth Burke, and Antonio Gramsci decades ago, and drawing upon more recent contributions by Ernesto Laclau and rhetorical critics, it considers folklore as a ...
Gencarella, Stephen Olbrys +1 more
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Loodus kahe XIX sajandi keskpaigas sündinud mehe omaeluloolistes tekstides
Keel ja Kirjandus, 2023 The article looks at nature references in texts written in the 1890s by two men born in the middle of the 19th century: namely, the autobiographical writings of farmer and school teacher Paulus Paurmann (1850–1903), and the diary of miller Märt Siipsen ...
Katre Kikas
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
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Constructing the Folk Cultural Sphere: Agency, Media and Authority
Ethnologia Europaea, 2021 This paper explores the dynamics of agency, media andauthority in the maintenance and construction of the folk cultural sphere– that is, asociety’s generalized perception and understanding of traditional culture.
- Frog
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"The Swede from North Dakota": Explicating a Euro-American Folksong
Ethnologia Europaea, 2021 “The Swede from North Dakota,” a narrative folksong or ballad performed in a broken-English “Scandihoovian” dialect, has circulated in differing versions throughout America’s Upper Midwest since the early 1900s.
James P Leary
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On the Path of the Buddha – Specifics and Distribution of Buddhism in Bulgaria
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2018 The article deals with an unexplored topic in Bulgarian anthropological context – the distribution and specifics of Buddhism in Bulgaria. It aims at providing information about the penetration of Buddhism in the country and the state of the Buddhist ...
Svetoslava Toncheva
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Traditional Healing Expectations in Light of Placebo and Performance Studies
, 2023 This article examines what expectations lay people (those not considered folk healers themselves) had for pre-industrial Finnish-Karelian healing traditions, how these expectations were represented in archived folklore materials, and how they, in turn ...
Kohonen, Siria, null null, Siria Kohonen
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Humanities, 2023 Turn-of-twentieth-century Sámi concepts of spirits of the dead are presented along with accounts of those exceptional individuals able to see, hear, interact with, and sometimes control them, particularly persons termed noaideslágáš, i.e., skilled in ...
Thomas A. DuBois
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Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture [PDF]
, 2007 Interest in the conjunctions of film and folklore is stronger and more diverse than ever. Documentaries on folk life and expression remain a vital genre, but scholars such as Sharon Sherman and Mikel Koven also are exploring how folklore elements appear ...
Sherman, Sharon R.,editor. +3 more
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2007 Program and Abstracts for the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society and the Folklore Studies Association of Canada/Association Canadienne D'Ethnologie et de Folklore [PDF]
, 2007 This document is the conference program and abstracts for the annual joint meeting: “The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage”/“Le patrimoine immatériel: Problématiques, enjeux et perspectives” of the American Folklore Society and the ...
American Folklore Society
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