Explaining traditions : folk behavior in modern culture /
"Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Defining tradition: on the meaning and politics of a "handy" concept
- Explaining tradition: on folk and folkloristic logic
- Building tradition: on control and authority in vernacular architecture
- Making tradition: on craft in American consciousness
- Adapting tradition: on folklore in human development
- Fading tradition: on a dying language and lore
- Personalizing tradition: on storytelling by an African American father and son
- Symbolizing tradition: on the scatology of an ethnic identity
- Sporting tradition: on the praxis of American football
- Virtual tradition: on the Internet as a folk system.