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Living Folklore

Author : Martha Sims

Publisher : University Press of Colorado

Page : 444 pages

File Size : 26,54 MB

Release : 2005-07-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 087421517X

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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.



Living Folklore

Author : Martha Sims

Publisher :

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 25,34 MB

Release : 2005-07-30

Category : Education

ISBN :

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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.



Living Folklore, 2nd Edition

Author : Martha Sims

Publisher : University Press of Colorado

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 50,12 MB

Release : 2011-10-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0874218454

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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.



Living Folklore

Author : Martha Sims

Publisher : University Press of Colorado

Page : 561 pages

File Size : 19,96 MB

Release : 2011-10-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1457174561

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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.



Living Myth

Author : D. Stephenson Bond

Publisher : Shambhala Publications

Page : 241 pages

File Size : 34,41 MB

Release : 2019-06-25

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0834842033

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Living Myth explores the dilemma of how to live life creatively at a time when the dominant myths of our culture are losing their power to give meaning to our lives. Using C. G. Jung's idea of discovering a "personal myth," D. Stephenson Bond reflects on the psychology of mythic imagination, as a force in both culture and individual life. He argues that meaning is experienced subjectively through the stirring of imagination and fantasy in the individual, which touches the larger impersonal, archetypal patterns. The book offers hopeful insights into the possibilities of cultural renewal and individual meaning through the restoration of the imagination.



Russian Magic

Author : Cherry Gilchrist

Publisher : Quest Books

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 21,14 MB

Release : 2009-10-13

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0835608743

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In the heart of Russia, old ways of perceiving the spirits of home and nature still prevail. Fairy stories, folk art, and calendar customs carry hints of the old gods and offer a now rare way of linking human life to the landscape. This is as true for city dwellers and villagers, for the Russian soul is open to the power of myth and the mysteries of the universe. This book explains how Russia's concept of soul ("dusha") and sensitivity to the landscape extends to archaeologists, scientists, and doctors in Russia, who retain an open-minded approach and a keen interest in psychic phenomena, along with folk traditions and faith healing. Author Cherry Gilchrist has traveled often to Russia and researched its traditional lore, gaining knowledge she interweaves into this book. She blends that first-hand knowledge with serious research to paint a lively picture of these remarkable magical traditions and their enduring power.



The Folkloresque

Author : Michael Dylan Foster

Publisher : University Press of Colorado

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 22,63 MB

Release : 2015-11-02

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1457197464

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"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."



Buying the Wind

Author : Richard M. Dorson

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 592 pages

File Size : 24,37 MB

Release : 1964

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0226158624

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Book Description

Selection of tales, songs, riddles, proverbs and other items of folklore from seven regional cultures of the U.S.A.



Story, Performance, and Event

Author : Richard Bauman

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 152 pages

File Size : 50,46 MB

Release : 1986-09-26

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780521311113

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An analysis of Texan oral narratives that focuses on the significance of their social context. Although the tales are all from Texas, they are considered representative of oral storytelling traditions in their relationships between story, performance and event.



American Folklore Scholarship

Author : Rosemary Levy Zumwalt

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 212 pages

File Size : 23,99 MB

Release : 1988-06-22

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780253204721

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"American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in their introductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the book before their qualifying exams." --Folklore Forum "... a welcome overview of the discipline in North America and the practitioners who established it." --American Anthropologist In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the split between literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked at literary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture of the people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.