Humble Theory: Folklore'S Grasp On Social Life - 9780253023148

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

• | Author: Dorothy Noyes
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 470 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0253023149
• | ISBN-13: 9780253023148