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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"folkloristics"”.
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‘SHE CAME THROUGH ME’: Situating Birth Stories and Women’s Embodied Wisdom in Folkloristics
The mainstream image conjured in the American imagination of birth goes something like this: There is a clean, bright hospital room. In it is a laboring woman, she is on her back, her legs in stirrups. Beside her is her anxious, perhaps nauseated, husband. A masked doctor is seated between her …
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Aboriginal Britain: Ethnological folkloristics and the origin of the nation in the work of Sir George Laurence Gomme, Sir John Rhŷs, and Alfred Nutt
Through a close reading of the theoretical work of folklorists Sir George Laurence Gomme, Sir John Rhŷs, and Alfred Nutt and extensive research into the discourses of human and social origins in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this thesis examines the use of folklore as a tool for the …
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Behind the Legend: A Historical Archaeology of the Buffalo Shooting industry, 1875-1958
… study, combining historical archaeology and folkloristics, 'excavates' the memory of the buffalo shooting industry across a cultural continuum whilst providing historical reinterpretation of this unique industry.
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Behind the Legend: A Historical Archaeology of the Buffalo Shooting industry, 1875-1958
… study, combining historical archaeology and folkloristics, 'excavates' the memory of the buffalo shooting industry across a cultural continuum whilst providing historical reinterpretation of this unique industry.
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Popular autoethnography in Britain, c. 1870 - 1940
… studies, beginning with late-nineteenth century folkloristics, the first endeavour within the human sciences to devote itself to homeland ethnography, before moving onto an examination of the *fin-de-siècle* photographic survey movement. It shows how contributors to both projects saw themselves …
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Beyond Celebration: A Call for the Study of Traditions of Dominance
… discuss the implications of our current model of folkloristics, a paradigm of celebration. In so doing, following the suggestions of feminist folklorists who have come before me, I present an example of how folklore serves to benefit from feminist theory. The central purpose of this thesis is to …
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
… in a postmodern society and performance folkloristics to analyze the verbal art and performances at the rallies. Finally, I conclude with an overview of how German Volkskunde has changed after the Nazi era and discuss how the issue of folklore and ideology in Germany relates to the …
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Learning from mothers: how myths, policies and practices affect the early detection of subtle developmental problems in children
… synthesis of interpretive biography and literary folkloristics provided a method of collecting, reading and interpreting the life stories of mothers whose children had not been detected with developmental problems until school age. The life stories were obtained through individual, in-depth …
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A disciplinary history of Latvian mythology
Väitekirja teemaks on mütoloogia uurimine kui teadmisloome protsess, mis paikneb folkloristika, ajaloo ja religiooniteaduse piirialal. Rakendatud on refleksiivse historiograafia metodoloogiat, mille lähtekohad on postmodernismi ja poststrukturalismi diskursuses, lingvistilises antropoloogias, …