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Humble theory : folklore's grasp on social life / Dorothy Noyes

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington Indiana University Press [2016]Description: vii, 459 pages 24 cmISBN:
  • 978-0-253-02291-2
  • 978-0-253-02314-8
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.2 23
Other classification:
  • H.07
Contents:
Humble theory -- Group -- The social base of folklore -- Tradition : three traditions -- Aesthetic is the opposite of anaesthetic : on tradition and attention -- Voice in the provinces : submission, recognition, and the birth of heritage in lower Languedoc -- The work of redemption : folk voice in the myth of industrial development -- Festival pasts and futures in Catalonia -- Hardscrabble academies : toward a social economy of vernacular invention -- Cultural warming? : Brazil in Berlin -- Fairy-tale economics : scarcity, risk, choice -- On sociocultural categories -- The judgment of Solomon : global protections for tradition and the problem of community ownership -- Heritage, legacy, zombie : how to bury the undead past -- Compromised concepts in rising waters : making the folk resilient

Includes bibliographical references and index

Humble theory -- Group -- The social base of folklore -- Tradition : three traditions -- Aesthetic is the opposite of anaesthetic : on tradition and attention -- Voice in the provinces : submission, recognition, and the birth of heritage in lower Languedoc -- The work of redemption : folk voice in the myth of industrial development -- Festival pasts and futures in Catalonia -- Hardscrabble academies : toward a social economy of vernacular invention -- Cultural warming? : Brazil in Berlin -- Fairy-tale economics : scarcity, risk, choice -- On sociocultural categories -- The judgment of Solomon : global protections for tradition and the problem of community ownership -- Heritage, legacy, zombie : how to bury the undead past -- Compromised concepts in rising waters : making the folk resilient

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