Folklore as an Historical Science

Folklore as an Historical Science
Author: George Laurence Gomme
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2024-01-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9361420518

“Folklore as an Historical Science" is an ancient nonfiction historical story book written by George Laurence Gomme. In "Folklore as a Historical Science," George Laurence Gomme dives into the complicated relationship amongst folklore and information, creating a compelling case for folklore's relevance as a tool for facts the beyond. Gomme demonstrates how folklore serves as a repository of cultural memory, preserving conduct, attitudes, and practices that provide precious insights into civilization's records. Gomme believes that folklore ought to nolonger be disregarded as easy fantasy or superstition, but as an alternative as a probable deliver of historical statistics. Drawing on an expansion of folkloric property, along with myths, reminiscences, nonpublic stories, and practices, he demonstrates how those narratives reproduce social, political, and monetary dynamics in unique ancient situations. Gomme dreams internet site users to reconsider their belief of statistics via clarity and comprehension, and encourages them to truly receive folklore as a crucial part of the observation of information. "Folklore as a Historical Science" reveals Gomme's groundbreaking research and prolonged-reputation influence in folklore and anthropology.

The Science of Folklore

The Science of Folklore
Author: Alexander Haggerty Krappe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781494095635

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

Science, Folklore and Ideology

Science, Folklore and Ideology
Author: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781853996030

This text takes a set of central topics from ancient Greek medicine and biology - relating especially to beliefs about animals, women and drugs - and studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore, and second the ideological character of ancient scientific inquiry. Within this framework the author looks at the development of zoological taxonomy, the repercussions of prevailing Greek assumptions concerning the inferiority of the female sex on medical practice, pharmacology and anatomy. Anthropology is used to provide a comparative dimension to the discussion of ancent Greek popular beliefs.

Ours Once More

Ours Once More
Author: Michael Herzfeld
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789207231

When this work – one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields – first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building. It has since been highly influential in reshaping the analysis of Greek and European cultural dynamics. In this expanded edition, a new introduction by the author and an epilogue by Sharon Macdonald document its importance for the emergence of serious anthropological interest in European culture and society and for current debates about Greece’s often contested place in the complex politics of the European Union.

Folklore

Folklore
Author: Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 157441223X

Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to communicate with other members within a community, to learn, to celebrate, and to express creativity. It is what helps distinguish one culture from another. Although folklore is so much a part of our daily lives, we often lose sight of just how integral it is to everything we do. If we look for it, we can find folklore in places where we'd never think it existed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do includes articles on a variety of topics. One chapter looks at how folklore and history complement one another; while historical records provide facts about dates, places and names, folklore brings those events and people to life by making them relevant to us. Several articles examine the cultural roles women fill. Other articles feature folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. As a follow-up article to Inside the Classroom (and Out), which focused on folklore in education, there is also an article on how teachers can use writing in the classroom as a means of keeping alive the storytelling tradition. The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.

A Handbook of Philippine Folklore

A Handbook of Philippine Folklore
Author: Mellie Leandicho Lopez
Publisher: UP Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2006
Genre: Folk literature, Philippine
ISBN: 9789715425148

The voluminous book provides a range of international theories and methodologies in analytical folklore investigations, and a classification scheme based on genre is offered as the system of taxonomy for Philippine traditional materials. Lopez counts on the regional folklorists to refine the classification according to the texts of their respective areas. The different genres, too, are explained and examined in another part of Lopez's study. The reader will definitely find interesting and useful, the illustrative examples for each genre.

Folklore and Folklife

Folklore and Folklife
Author: Richard M. Dorson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 1972
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226158713

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