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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Folklore Studies"”.
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Constructing Regionalism: Discourses of Spirituality and Cultural Poverty in the Popular Music of Uttarakhand, North India
… elites, state institutions, private media, and 'folklore' studies all stand to gain from the construction of regional difference. This study is a modest effort to trace the growth of cultural regionalism across the historical depth and geographic breadth of the popular music industry, with an eye …
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Jews Behind Glass: The Ethnographic Impulse in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature, 1900-1948
… from contemporary ethnography, anthropology, and folklore studies. The influence of these disciplines is manifest in the representation of Eastern European Jews as primitive savages, the depiction of the Jewish people as being at risk of extinction, the articulation of the need to salvage European …
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A Comparative Analysis of the influence of Folklore on the works of the following African writers: Chinua Achebe, Eskia Mphahlele, Ngungi wa Thiongo' and Andrew Nkadimeng: An Afrocentric approach
… play a significant role in passing on African folklore. Their writing is often influenced by their lived experiences and the social context embedded within folklore. Folklore houses the cultural beliefs, customs and traditions of a society and is passed on from one generation to the next …
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Vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality: studies in religious experience and expression
… or as represented by authority figures. The studies examine how people interpret, act out and adapt their beliefs in a variety of spiritual milieux; the emphasis is on the experience and perceptions both of those within traditional belief communities, as well as the increasing numbers whose …
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The French-language Reception of Grimms’ ‘Rotkappchen’ 1868-1948
… movement. The development of the field of folklore studies from the Grimms to the present day is also outlined, with particular emphasis on Jack Zipes’ socio-political reading of the versions and adaptations of this tale from Europe and America; a reading which is adapted and developed for …
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Passages divinely lit : revelatory vernacular rhetoric on the Internet
… melding the behavioral ethnographic methods of folklore studies and socio-linguistics to postmodern methods of rhetorical analysis, this dissertation explores the general hypothesis that Internet media encourage the use of negotiative rhetorical strategies in the everyday expression of …
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Saudades de Arcoverde: nostalgia and the performance of origin
… register of the region's place as a reservoir of folklore within the national imaginary. As the two groups gain recognition outside of the semi-arid backlands of the Northeast, they access festival stages and recording studios, entering the circuits of government sponsorship of culture and the …
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
… this thesis, I examine the relationship between folklore and nationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. More specifically, I focus on how the Nazis used folklore and the work of folklorists in their propaganda. The first chapter documents the development of nationalism and the …
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Women Writing Folklore: Politics of Folk and Fairy-tale Collections from Italian and Irish Islands (1870-1920)
… cultural phenomenon of collecting and compiling folklore and fairy tales was influenced by nineteenth-century ideologies, national identities and linguistic thought by focusing on the works of women writers and folktale collectors in Italy and Ireland. Sharing a mutual interest in reviving the …