Folklore Exam 1
Terms
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- folk
- 19th century word meaning "peasents"
- lore
- a kind of knowledge expressed through artistic forms or practices
- folklore
- artistic communication in small groups
- forms of folklore
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Verbal (stories/tales/jokes),
Customary (ceremonies/rights of passage),
Material ( food/art) - properties of folklore
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Traditional yet emergent,
Collective yet individualized
Face-to-face yet commodified -
American superculture/
monoculture -
Done on a national scale with exposure through:
media
market
government
educational system language - subculture
- further breakdown of the American superculture
- cultural pluralism
- coexistence of diversity in a different place (strongly related to creolism)
- creolism
- people in a diverse cultural setting interacting with each other (strongly related to cultural pluralism)
- notion of genre
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Etic terms=scholar terms
Emic terms=folk terms - 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 - 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 - elements of narrative/story
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Plot
Characters
Action
Dialogue - 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) - customary folklore
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Games
Dances
Dramas/Skits
Festivals
Ceremonies - customary folklore's two routes
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Profane: inversion, rebellious, gluttony
Sacred: excessive formality, heirarchy, proper - magic
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assumes sympathy (casual relationship between unrelated phenomenon)
*coexists with religion and science - religion
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assumes higher power (offerings/prayer)
*coexists with magic and science - science
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asssumes Law of Nature
*coexists with magic and religion - material folklore
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Folk Architecture
Arts and crafts
Clothes/dress/regalia
Food - folk art vs. folk craft
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Folk art=decorative
Folk craft=utilitarian
*changes with time/setting--can be both - 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) - 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