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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149166503321

Autore

Noyes Dorothy

Titolo

Humble Theory : Folklore's Grasp on Social Life / / Dorothy Noyes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-253-02338-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (471 pages)

Disciplina

398.2

Soggetti

Ethnology - Study and teaching

Ethnology - Philosophy

Folklore - Study and teaching

Folklore - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Incisive and wide ranging, the fifteen essays in this book chronicle the "humble theoryof both folk and folklorist as interacting perspectives on social life in the modern Western world.