A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Elliott oring author of folk groups and folklore genres. Compiled to accompany the bestselling textbook, folk groups and folklore genres. In which i talk a bit about how folklorists classify the material they study. Folk groups and folklore genres is meant to be used in two ways. Export a ris file for endnote, procite, reference manager, zotero, mendeley export a text file for bibtex note. Orings introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques. Since 1986, when it was first published, this book has met the need for good instructional material at a time of tremendous growth in folklore programs and introductory courses in colleges and universities around the world. Elliott oring is the author of folk groups and folklore genres 3. Folk groups and folklore genres reader book description. It is intended to provide an alternative to the textbook approach to introductory instruction. First, it is meant to be used in quarter or semesterlength introductory courses.
How would we go about deciding whether something not on the list were lore or not. For example, is a barn decoration or a football cheer a kind of lore. These three genres, along with related folklore genres such as ritual, festival, art, music, poetry, foodways, holidays, folk belief, and so on will be the focus of this course that examines folklore globally and locally. For example, there is the pretended obscene riddle, which consists of a question that seems to call for an obscene answer, but really has an innocent answer what is it that a woman does sitting down, a man.
Dundes disputes the notion that folk should be automatically identified with peasant or rural groups, or with people from the past. Folk groups and folklore genres several liturgical suggestions in the revision of the worship liturgy in 1978. One of the best known explanations of folklore is found in alan dundes brief essay, what is folklore. An introduction, the selections in this anthology extend the discussion in diverse directions, alert the reader to new problems, and introduce alternative perspectives. Interpreting the womans remark is more complicated. Known for her ready wit and occasional iconoclastic statements, she publicly mocked. Orings introductory folklore text consists of a ser. Folk groups and folklore genres do not operate on this principle of metaphorical description. Folk groups and folklore genres one could define each genre on the list, an incomplete list would still remain unacceptable as a definition. An introduction is not a textbook, nor is it meant to directly compete with the folklore textbooks currently available.
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