Tradition in the twenty-first century : locating the role of the past in the present /

In this book, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a century, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the conceptual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern era, expanded means of communi...

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Other Authors: Blank, Trevor J. (Editor), Howard, Robert Glenn (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, an imprint of University Press of Colorado, [2013]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Living Traditions in a Modern World / Robert Glenn Howard and Trevor J. Blank
  • Thinking through Tradition / Elliott Oring
  • Critical Folklore Studies and the Revaluation of Tradition / Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
  • Vernacular Authority : Critically Engaging "Tradition" / Robert Glenn Howard
  • Asserting Tradition : Rhetoric of Tradition and the Defense of Chief Illiniwek / Casey R. Schmitt
  • Curation and Tradition on Web 2.0 / Merrill Kaplan
  • Trajectories of Tradition : Following Tradition into a New Epoch of Human Culture / Tok Thompson
  • And the Greatest of These Is Tradition : The Folklorist's Toolbox in the Twenty-First Century / Lynne S. McNeill
  • The "Handiness" of Tradition / Simon J. Bronner.