The Practice of Folklore : Essays toward a Theory of Tradition /

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"Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, often characterized as folklore. In The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition, author Simon J. Bronner works with theories of cultural practice to explain the soci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bronner, Simon J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Folklore > Methodology.
Folklore > Classification.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore > Methodologie.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Theories and definitions
  • Practice theory in folklore and folklife studies
  • The handiness of tradition
  • Toward a definition of folklore in practice
  • Practices and practitioners
  • Rethinking the boogieman: a praxeological inquiry into the origin, form, and cognition of a troubling folk character
  • Who's your daddy?: proverbial and psychological meanings in practice
  • The shooter has Asperger's: autism, belief, and wild child narratives
  • Who's that knocking on my door?: Barnacle Bill again and again
  • Implications and applications
  • From farm to. farmers' markets: Amish folk society in the age of fast capitalism
  • The year of folklore and other lessons of public heritage
  • Are folk museums still relevant?
  • Folkloristic practices in a converging hyper era
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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