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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.
- Folklore
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- Nov 07, 2020
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually one of the principal means by which an individual and a group discovers or establishes his or its identity.
- Myth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own bias in folkloristics is decidedly psychoanalytic. I believe that the vast majority of folklore concerns fantasy, and because of that, I am persuaded that techniques of analyzing fantasy are relevant to folklore data.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
- Favor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020