Just Folklore
Download Just Folklore full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Just Folklore ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Elliott Oring |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Folklore |
| ISBN | : 9780985521417 |
Just Folklore is a remarkable collection of essays on the forms and concepts of folklore. Jokes, legends, beliefs, ballads, rituals, routines, and material objects are dissected to reveal the ways they are constructed and the meanings they can convey. Tradition, transmission, symbol, group, identity, and other key concepts in the field are scrutinized to expose hidden problems and to suggest directions that folklore studies might fruitfully explore. Although originally written for folklorists, these essays are accessible to serious students new to the field. They will provoke discussion and debate. Students can find in these essays provocative and compelling models for the analysis and interpretation of the arts and traditions of everyday life.
| Author | : Lynne S. McNeill |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2013-09-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 149200166X |
Folklore Rules is a brief introduction to the foundational concepts in folklore studies for beginning students. Designed to give essential background on the current study of folklore and some of the basic concepts and questions used when analyzing folklore, this short, coherent, and approachable handbook is divided into five chapters: What Is Folklore?; What Do Folklorists Do?; Types of Folklore; Types of Folk Groups; and, finally, What Do I Do Now? Through these chapters students are guided toward a working understanding of the field, learn basic terms and techniques, and learn to perceive the knowledge base and discourse frame for materials used in folklore courses. Folklore Rules will appeal to instructors and students for a variety of courses, including introductory folklore and comparative studies as well as literature, anthropology, and composition classes that include a folklore component.
| Author | : Michael Dylan Foster |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2015-11-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1457197464 |
"This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the “folkloresque.” With “folkloresque,” Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that is grounded in the discourse and theory of the discipline.Fantasy fiction, comic books, anime, video games, literature, professional storytelling and comedy, and even popular science writing all commonly incorporate elements from tradition or draw on basic folklore genres to inform their structure. Through three primary modes—integration, portrayal, and parody—the collection offers a set of heuristic tools for analysis of how folklore is increasingly used in these commercial and mass-market contexts.The Folkloresque challenges disciplinary and genre boundaries; suggests productive new approaches for interpreting folklore, popular culture, literature, film, and contemporary media; and encourages a rethinking of traditional works and older interpretive paradigms."
| Author | : Hélène Adeline Guerber |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 556 |
| Release | : 1908 |
| Genre | : Mythology, Norse |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : M. D. Muthukumaraswamy |
| Publisher | : NFSC www.indianfolklore.org |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Folklore |
| ISBN | : 8190148125 |
This Volume Will Stand As An Eccelectic Testimony To The Fact That Folklorists Are The New Public Intellectuals Of 21St Century Addressing Issues Of Integrity And Representation, Cultural Freedom And Justice, Aesthetics Of Tradition And Change And Contributing To The Development Of Civic Republicanism.
| Author | : Barre Toelken |
| Publisher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
| Total Pages | : 736 |
| Release | : 2013-02-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1457180715 |
One of the most comprehensive and widely praised introductions to folklore ever written. Toelken's discussion of the history and meaning of folklore is delivered in straightforward language, easily understood definitions, and a wealth of insightful and entertaining examples. Toelken emphasizes dynamism and variety in the vast array of folk expressions he examines, from "the biology of folklore," to occupational and ethnic lore, food ways, holidays, personal experience narratives, ballads, myths, proverbs, jokes, crafts, and others. Chapters are followed by bibliographical essays, and over 100 photographs illustrate the text. This new edition is accessible to all levels of folklore study and an essential text for classroom instruction.
| Author | : Martha Sims |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2011-10-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0874218454 |
Living Folklore is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to folklore as it is lived, shared and practiced in contemporary settings. Drawing on examples from diverse American groups and experiences, this text gives the student a strong foundation—from the field's history and major terms to theories and interpretive approaches. Living Folklore moves beyond genres and classifications, and encourages students who are new to the field to see the study of folklore as a unique approach to understanding people, communities, and day-to-day artistic communication. This revised edition incorporates new examples, research, and theory along with added discussion of digital and online folklore.
| Author | : Martha Sims |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2005-07-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 087421517X |
Living Folklore is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to folklore as it is lived, shared and practiced in contemporary settings. Drawing on examples from diverse American groups and experiences, this text gives the student a strong foundation—from the field’s history and major terms to theories, interpretive approaches, and fieldwork. Many teachers of undergraduates find the available folklore textbooks too complex or unwieldy for an introductory level course. It is precisely this criticism that Living Folklore addresses; while comprehensive and rigorous, the book is specifically intended to meet the needs of those students who are just beginning their study of the discipline. Its real strength lies in how it combines carefully articulated foundational concepts with relevant examples and a student-oriented teaching philosophy.
| Author | : K. Brandon Barker |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2019-04-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0253041104 |
Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, "stealing" your niece's nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell– these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities. In this groundbreaking study, K. Brandon Barker and Claiborne Rice argue that these easily overlooked instances of children's folklore offer an important avenue for studying perception and cognition in the contexts of social and embodied development. Folk illusions are traditionalized verbal and/or physical actions that are performed with the intention of creating a phantasm for one or more participants. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the ethnographic methods of folklore with the empirical data of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology, Barker and Rice catalogue over eighty discrete folk illusions while exploring the complexities of embodied perception. Taken together as a genre of folklore, folk illusions show that people, starting from a young age, possess an awareness of the illusory tendencies of perceptual processes as well as an awareness that the distinctions between illusion and reality are always communally formed.
| Author | : Tom Phillips |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 101 |
| Release | : 2019-06-03 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0750991828 |
Nestled within our green and pleasant land lies pockets of emerald trees. Their roots search deep into the ground and the branches reach high towards the sun. For centuries some of these have stood watching and listening to the human creatures living among them, hearing their stories and remembering. What mysteries could these woodlands tell if the trees could speak? Stories of brave deeds and foolish, star-crossed lovers, of monsters, giants and witches, hobs and kings. Discover the secrets of our forests in this engaging collection of folk tales.
