Explaining traditions : folk behavior in modern culture /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bronner, Simon J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2011.
Subjects:
Folklore > United States.
Oral tradition > United States.
Communication in folklore > United States.
Folklore > États-Unis.
Tradition orale > États-Unis.
Communication dans le folklore > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Communication in folklore.
Folklore.
Manners and customs.
Oral tradition.
United States > Social life and customs.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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