Imagined states : nationalism, utopia, and longing in oral cultures /

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An international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence--some idealizations, some demonizations--in the construction of identities for themselves and for others.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Del Giudice, Luisa, Porter, Gerald, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Oral tradition.
Utopias.
Imaginary places.
Ethnicity.
Nationalism.
Nostalgia.
Utopias
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Folklore.
Tradition orale.
Utopies.
Lieux imaginaires.
Ethnicité.
Nationalisme.
Nostalgie.
ethnicity.
nationalism.
imaginary places.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Ethnicity
Imaginary places
Nationalism
Nostalgia
Oral tradition
Kulturelle Identität
Imaginärer Schauplatz
Mündliche Überlieferung
Utopie
Mondelinge literatuur.
Utopieën.
Denkbeeldige landen.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Heimwee.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mountains of cheese and rivers of wine: Paesi di Cuccagna and other gastronomic utopias / Luisa Del Giudice
  • Prefaced space: tales of the colonial British collectors of Indian folklore / Sadhana Naithani
  • Working the railways, constructing Navvy identity / Reimund Kvideland and Gerald Porter
  • "Who talks of my nation?" the role of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in constructing "Englishness" / Gerald Porter
  • The Turkish German self: displacing German-German conflict in oriental street ballads / Tom Cheesman
  • Bovine bodies and the domestication of the human mind / Cozette Griffin-Kremer
  • "The poppy blossom from my native land": the married woman as exile in Latvian folk poetry / Vaira Vīk̦e-Freiberga.

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