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The Folklorist in the Marketplace : Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics

"Voices from multiple disciplines consider how economics shape and are shaped by folk groups and academic disciplines and goes far beyond the well-trod examinations of material culture to look closely at the historical and contemporary intersections of these two disciplines and provoke cross-di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mullins, Willow G.
Otros Autores: Batra-Wells, Puja
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Utah State University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Folklore as a Networked Economy: Or, How a Recently-Invented-but-Traditional Artifact Reveals the Way Folkloric Production Has Always Worked; 2. Branding Unibroue: Selling Quebecois Folklore through Beer; 3. Market Forces and Marketplace Economics at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival; 4. The Sweet Spot: An Epistemological Approach to the Economics of Sugarmaking in Vermont; 5. Where the Creel Boats Go: The Politics of Sustainable Fisheries in a Small Orkney Community
  • 6. The Economics of Curation and Representation: Dialogues in the Commemorative Landscape of Portsmouth, Ohio7. An Ordered Mess: Folk Narratives and Practices in a Chinese Hui Muslim Market; 8. Art/Work: Precarious Encounters and Vernacular Economic Remedies; 9. From Vision to Implementation: Clashing Values of Economic Idealism and Solvency in Twin Oaks Community, 1967-1979; 10. "Why the Sea Is Salty": Folktales as Sources of Grassroots Economics; 11. What Would Hermes Do? A Jungian Perspective on the Trickster and Business Ethics; 12. Folk Economies and the Artisan Workshop
  • 13. Consuming Authenticities: An Economics of FolkloristsAbout the Authors; Index