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23 Cards in this Set
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folk
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19th century word meaning "peasents"
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lore
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a kind of knowledge expressed through artistic forms or practices
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folklore
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artistic communication in small groups
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forms of folklore
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Verbal (stories/tales/jokes),
Customary (ceremonies/rights of passage), Material ( food/art) |
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properties of folklore
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Traditional yet emergent,
Collective yet individualized Face-to-face yet commodified |
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American superculture/
monoculture |
Done on a national scale with exposure through:
media market government educational system language |
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subculture
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further breakdown of the American superculture
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cultural pluralism
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coexistence of diversity in a different place (strongly related to creolism)
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creolism
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people in a diverse cultural setting interacting with each other (strongly related to cultural pluralism)
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notion of genre
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Etic terms=scholar terms
Emic terms=folk terms |
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folk speech vs. Standard American English (SAE)
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Code switching (sliding into different kinds of speech depending on group your in)
Bilingualism/creolsism (spangles/finglish) Jargon |
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conversational genres
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Names (nicknames)
Euphemisms Greetings or leave takings Intensifiers (fuck!) Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (early bird gets the worm) Rhymes/Poetry (singing while jumping rope) Taunts/joking relationships |
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elements of narrative/story
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Plot
Characters Action Dialogue |
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genres/forms
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Myth (sacred story/creation/personified elements)
Legend (story that's supposed to be true, real people and extraordinary experiences) Folktales (fictitious/shock characters) True Story (personal experience/family) Tall Tale Ballads (narrative folk song) |
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customary folklore
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Games
Dances Dramas/Skits Festivals Ceremonies |
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customary folklore's two routes
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Profane: inversion, rebellious, gluttony
Sacred: excessive formality, heirarchy, proper |
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magic
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assumes sympathy (casual relationship between unrelated phenomenon)
*coexists with religion and science |
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religion
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assumes higher power (offerings/prayer)
*coexists with magic and science |
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science
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asssumes Law of Nature
*coexists with magic and religion |
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material folklore
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Folk Architecture
Arts and crafts Clothes/dress/regalia Food |
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folk art vs. folk craft
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Folk art=decorative
Folk craft=utilitarian *changes with time/setting--can be both |
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folklife vs. folklore
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Folklife: the way people dress, the dialect they use and the food they eat on an everyday basis
Folklore: how we talk about it--done on special occasions (compare to folklife) |
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Folklore in relation to the humanities and social sciences
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Humanities: history, art, art history, theatre, music, etc. Humanities are concerned with famous/important people usually in one field whereas folklore deals with everyday people in every field
Social Sciences: Uses field work similar to anthropology and uses the scientific method |
