Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities – serie
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Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon"
The Folk in the City
Inbunden, 2018
1208 kr
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Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging “hon” to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture. …
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality
African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943
Inbunden, 2023
1552 kr
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After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks continued to experience inequality in all phases of American life—social, cultural, political, and economic. In pursuit of equality, African American …
Jewish Bodylore
Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices
Inbunden, 2018
1390 kr
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Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices explores the Jewish body and its symbology as a space for identity communication, applying the tools of bodylore (the folkloric study of the body) to the Jewish body in ways that are in line both with feminist and queer theory. The …
Jewish Bodylore
Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices
Häftad, 2021
593 kr
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Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices explores the Jewish body and its symbology as a space for identity communication, applying the tools of bodylore (the folkloric study of the body) to the Jewish body in ways that are in line both with feminist and queer theory. The …
Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands
Socialist in Form, National in Content
Av Toms Kencis, Simon J. Bronner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1207 kr
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Thirteen international scholars assess the profound impact of Soviet-era movements to study, apply, and perform folklore as a priority in socialist policy-formation and culture-building. Representing generations who lived through and after Soviet occupation, they reflect on the consequences of …
Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales
Av Allyssa McCabe, MinJeong Kim
Inbunden, 2022
1388 kr
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Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales is a multidisciplinary examination of folktales that are unfamiliar to Western audiences. Examining folktales from countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, China, Japan, and Korea, the contributors consider various aspects: including identity …
Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales
Av Allyssa McCabe, MinJeong Kim
Häftad, 2024
528 kr
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Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales is a multidisciplinary examination of folktales that are unfamiliar to Western audiences. Examining folktales from countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, China, Japan, and Korea, the contributors consider various aspects: including identity …
Spring Man
A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture
Av Petr Janecek
Inbunden, 2022
1207 kr
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Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture deconstructs the nationalistic myth of Spring Man that was created after the Second World War in visual culture and literature and presents his original form as an ambiguous, ghostly denizen of oral culture. Petr Janecek analyzes the …
James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942)
Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet
Inbunden, 2024
1388 kr
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James Buchanan Elmore (1857–1942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet details the life and work of Elmore as a “folk poet,” emphasizing the importance in the cultural understanding of the ethnographic insights he gave as a farmer in the midwestern region of the United States that experienced …
Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales
A Case Study and Ideological Approach
Av Juwen Zhang
Inbunden, 2024
1388 kr
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Through meticulous textual and contextual analysis of the sixteenth-century Chinese tale The Seven Brothers and its fifteen contemporary variants, Juwen Zhang unveils the ways in which the translation and illustration of folk and fairy tales can perpetuate racist stereotypes. By critically …
Fariseos Folk Tradition of San Pedro de la Cueva, Sonora
Morality and Masculinity
Av Guillermo Núñez Noriega, Norma Elia Cantú
Inbunden, 2025
1137 kr
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This book provides the first ever in-depth analysis of Fariseos, a folk-Catholic tradition performed during Holy Week in the small town of San Pedro de la Cueva located in the state of Sonora, Mexico.Utilizing folklore studies and performance theory, Guillermo Núñez Noriega delves deep into the …
Fariseos Folk Tradition of San Pedro de la Cueva, Sonora
Morality and Masculinity
Av Guillermo Núñez Noriega, Norma Elia Cantú
Häftad, 2027
259 kr
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This book provides the first ever in-depth analysis of Fariseos, a folk-Catholic tradition performed during Holy Week in the small town of San Pedro de la Cueva located in the state of Sonora, Mexico.Utilizing folklore studies and performance theory, Guillermo Núñez Noriega delves deep into the …
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland
Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen
Inbunden, 2019
1278 kr
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The hen (or bachelorette) party, with its groups of visible, raucous women on trains, planes, and in public spaces is ubiquitous throughout the English-speaking world. The practice of the blackening, a unique form of kidnapping and “punishment” ritual, is limited to North Eastern parts of Scotland …
PTSD and Folk Therapy
Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone
Av John Paul Wallis, Jay Mechling
Inbunden, 2019
1207 kr
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Using war memoirs, war journalism, and the personal experiences of John Paul Wallis as a Marine with two tours of duty in Iraq, Wallis and Mechling analyze the folklore shared by male warriors in the combat zone to understand how the traditional everyday practices of these men in groups serve as a …
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State
Inbunden, 2021
1207 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Belarus, an example of an authoritarian state, Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State presents over one hundred contemporary political jokes in the contexts of their performance. Throughout, Anastasiya Astapova demonstrates the salience of the …
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China
Healing a Nation
Av Juwen Zhang
Inbunden, 2021
1469 kr
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In Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation, Juwen Zhang provides a systematic survey of such oral traditions as folk and fairy tales, proverbs, ballads, and folksongs that are vibrantly practiced today. Zhang establishes a theoretical framework for understanding how Chinese culture …
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China
Healing a Nation
Av Juwen Zhang
Häftad, 2023
528 kr
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In Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation, Juwen Zhang provides a systematic survey of such oral traditions as folk and fairy tales, proverbs, ballads, and folksongs that are vibrantly practiced today. Zhang establishes a theoretical framework for understanding how Chinese culture …
Fariseos Folk Tradition of San Pedro de la Cueva, Sonora
Morality and Masculinity
Av Guillermo Núñez Noriega, Norma Elia Cantú
E-bok, 2025
1247 kr
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This book provides the first ever in-depth analysis of Fariseos, a folk-Catholic tradition performed during Holy Week in the small town of San Pedro de la Cueva located in the state of Sonora, Mexico.Utilizing folklore studies and performance theory, Guillermo Nunez Noriega delves deep into the …
