The article “Where Italians Speak Ladin” can serve as a case study for acculturation, Folk vs Popular culture, and isogloss. This is shown through the Ladin’s use of computer-assisted machines, costumes, busses, and the environment around them.
In this article there were many examples of acculturation. The most prominent example of this was the different ways that those in Ladin carve wood. “The old skills are still alive. While several workshops with computer-assisted machines turn out wooden sculptures and ship them to other countries, there are also hundreds of part-time artisan carvers in the area”(4). The Ladins adopted the use of computer-assisted machines through their neighbors, larger towns in Austria and Italy, who are more adapted …show more content…
Ladin has many folk traditions, but has also adapted some pop culture. An example of folk culture is their religious feast days. “On religious feast days, for weddings or for civic celebrations the Ladin farmers and some of the townsfolk pull their traditional costumes out of their closets. The women wear panlike or cone-shaped high hats over embroidered bodices, gaudy aprons and long billowing skirts”(4). This tradition is still practiced by the Ladins, and they still dress up in those costumes. This aspect of folk culture has been preserved because it isn’t practiced by large groups of people and the outfits are unique to those in Ladin. On the other hand, Ladin has still been able to adapt parts of popular culture such as bus systems. “ Nowadays the bus network of SAD (South Tyrol-Dolomites Auto Service) provides efficient public transportation throughout Ladinia and the entire province”(5). Ladin has been able to adapt to the transportation used by large groups of people. Bus systems are apart of many people’s everyday lives and spread across the whole world. Ladin has taken on some of the traits that a popular in everyday society so that it isn’t completely isolated. Ladins have kept their traditions such as dressing up for religious meals while still adapting to the popular culture around
In this article there were many examples of acculturation. The most prominent example of this was the different ways that those in Ladin carve wood. “The old skills are still alive. While several workshops with computer-assisted machines turn out wooden sculptures and ship them to other countries, there are also hundreds of part-time artisan carvers in the area”(4). The Ladins adopted the use of computer-assisted machines through their neighbors, larger towns in Austria and Italy, who are more adapted …show more content…
Ladin has many folk traditions, but has also adapted some pop culture. An example of folk culture is their religious feast days. “On religious feast days, for weddings or for civic celebrations the Ladin farmers and some of the townsfolk pull their traditional costumes out of their closets. The women wear panlike or cone-shaped high hats over embroidered bodices, gaudy aprons and long billowing skirts”(4). This tradition is still practiced by the Ladins, and they still dress up in those costumes. This aspect of folk culture has been preserved because it isn’t practiced by large groups of people and the outfits are unique to those in Ladin. On the other hand, Ladin has still been able to adapt parts of popular culture such as bus systems. “ Nowadays the bus network of SAD (South Tyrol-Dolomites Auto Service) provides efficient public transportation throughout Ladinia and the entire province”(5). Ladin has been able to adapt to the transportation used by large groups of people. Bus systems are apart of many people’s everyday lives and spread across the whole world. Ladin has taken on some of the traits that a popular in everyday society so that it isn’t completely isolated. Ladins have kept their traditions such as dressing up for religious meals while still adapting to the popular culture around