Du folklore à l'ethnologie Abrate, Laurent; Bleton-Ruget, Annie; Boëll, Denis-Michel ...
2009
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Le passage des études de folklore à l'ethnologie en France s'est fait dans la période troublée qui va du Front populaire à la Libération. Le folklore scientifique se construit de manière ambivalente, ...dans le cadre d'une politique culturelle qui fait la part belle aux traditions régionales : à la fois ouverte sur la modernité, et fascinée par un passé volontiers idéalisé. Avec l'avènement du régime de Vichy, le folklore devient l'instrument de la politique culturelle du maréchal Pétain et de sa Révolution nationale. Mais, en même temps, de vastes enquêtes scientifiques, extensives et collectives voient le jour. Cet ouvrage, qui fait suite à un colloque international tenu en 2003 au musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires (MNATP), apporte une réponse collective à des questions restées longtemps Houes, voire taboues : comment apprécier les activités du MNATP, créé en 1937, et celles de son directeur, Georges Henri Rivière, sous le régime de Vichy ? Quelles continuités, quelles ruptures apparaissent entre la période du Front populaire et Vichy ? Jusqu'où les folkloristes se sont-ils compromis ? Une nouvelle discipline était-elle déjà en germe ou le folklorisme sombrait-il totalement dans l'exaltation passéiste du inonde paysan ? Ce regard en arrière s'avère nécessaire à l'heure où l'ethnologie s'affranchit des barrières nationales - et alors qu'un nouveau musée, le musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), vient remplacer le MNATP.
Folklore-the inherently creative expression, transmission, and performance of cultural traditions-has always provided a deep well of material for writers, musicians, and artists of all sorts. ...Folklorists usually employ descriptive and analytical prose, but they, like scholars in other social sciences, have increasingly sought new, creative and reflexive modes of discourse. Many folklorists are also creative writers, some well known as such, and the folk traditions they research often provide shape and substance to their work. This collection of creative writing grounded in folklore and its study brings together some of the best examples of such writing.
Contributors to this collection include Teresa Bergen, John Burrison, Norma E. Cantu, Frank de Caro, Holly Everett, Danusha Goska, Neil R. Grobman, Carrie Hertz, Edward Hirsch, Laurel Horton, Rosan Augusta Jordan, Paul Jordan-Smith, Elaine J. Lawless, Cynthia Levee, Jens Lund, Mary Magoulick, Bernard McCarthy, Joanne B. Mulcahy, Kirin Narayan, Ted Olson, Daniel Peretti, Leslie Prosterman, Jo Radner, Susan Stewart, Jeannie Banks Thomas, Jeff Todd Titon, Libby Tucker, Margaret Yocom, and Steve Zeitlin.
Many myths recount how a single trivial action (for example, a simple misunderstanding) had cosmic consequences for the human race (for example, the entry of death into the world). Such ..."poverty-of-cause" narratives are reflective neither of a supposed primitive mentality, as earlier theorists suggested, nor of a widespread folk-idea of the so-called Butterfly Effect. Rather, the disproportion arises from the confluence of two general characteristics of traditional aetiological narrative, namely, the treatment of causation as local and immediate, and the portrayal of protagonists as representative of the species.
• Offers access to and brings alive unique materials on the Chinese storytelling traditions. • First time that storytellers? repertoires are registered in their entirety. • Useful for students of ...Chinese culture by serving as a bilingual guide to the great masterworks of the Chinese novel (Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West). This volume has its origins in the project 'Large-scale Registration of Chinese Storytelling', which involved the recording on film of 360 hours of performances by the four masters of Yangzhou storytelling, Dai Buzhang, Fei Zhengliang, Gao Zaihua and Ren Jitang. Four sets of these films have been deposited (in Washington D.C., Taipei, Beijing and openhagen) so that future generations of scholars will have access to this unique material. The purpose of Four Masters is two-fold: first, it functions a guide to the collections in situ (and one, moreover, that by its availability in libraries worldwide will promote further research into this material); second, with its introductory chapters, teller autobiographies, performances and catalogue entries (plus the audio-visual material), it stands as an independent and valuable contribution to research in Asian oral traditions. With all text appearing in both English and Chinese and with its subject matter brought alive by a wealth of photographs plus 60-minute film on VCD, this volume promises to be a classic work in its field.
In the 1950s and ‘60s, John W. Allen told the people of southern Illinois about themselves—about their region, its history, and its folkways—in his series of newspaper ...articles, “It Happened in Southern Illinois.” Each installment of the series depicted a single item of interest—a town, a building, an enterprise, a person, an event, a custom.  Originally published in 1963, Legends & Lore of Southern Illinois brings together a selection of these articles preserving a valuable body of significant local history and cultural lore.
During territorial times and early statehood, southern Illinois was the most populous and most influential part of the state. But the advent of the steamboat and the building of the National Road made the lands to the west and north more easily accessible, and the later settlers struck out for the more expansive and fertile prairies. The effect of this movement was to isolate that section of the state known as Egypt and halt its development, creating what Allen termed “an historical eddy.” Bypassed as it was by the main current of westward expansion and economic growth, its culture changed very slowly. Methods, practices, and the tools of the pioneer continued in use for a long time. The improved highways and better means of communication of the twentieth century brought a marked change upon the region, and daily life no longer differed materially from that of other areas.
            Against such a cultural and historical backdrop, Mr. Allen wrote these sketches of the people of southern Illinois—of their folkways and beliefs, their endeavors, successes, failures, and tragedies, and of the land to which they came.  There are stories here of slaves and their masters, criminals, wandering peddlers, politicians, law courts and vigilantes, and of boat races on the rivers. Allen also looks at the region’s earlier history, describing American Indian ruins, monuments, and artifacts as well as the native population’s encounters with European settlers.
            Many of the vestiges of the region’s past culture have all but disappeared, surviving only in museums and in the written record. This new paperback edition of Legends & Lore of Southern Illinois brings that past culture to life again in Allen’s descriptive, engaging style.
The oral tradition of Kentucky is one of the most rich and interesting in the nation and has attracted a number of outstanding men and women -- scholars and writers, teachers and singers -- who have ...devoted their energies to Kentucky's folk and their ways. Some have collected examples of the state's unique speech patterns and word usages. Others have recorded local place names and the legends that surround them, or the yarns and tall tales transmitted from one generation to the next. Musicians have sought the authentic mountain folk songs, both old and new, and gifted writers have woven details of their Kentucky upbringing into poems, novels, and stories.The Harvest and the Reapersilluminates the work of those who labor tirelessly to preserve Kentucky's oral history and traditions.
In one sense a folklorist's portrayal of a notable folk artist's life and art, Listening for a Life is equally a rethinking of the processes involved in such work, not only in how the folklorist ...conveys her subject but in how her subject constitutes and performs herself into being through dialogue with others: those present, those once present, those imagined and anticipated. Drawing on Bahktinian and feminist theory, Sawin pushes forward our understanding of the interactive roles of ethnographer and subject and in the process gives us a deeper understanding of folk singer and storyteller Bessie Eldreth and her greatest art, herself.
Saamentutkimus tänään is an introduction to the Sámi studies, i.e. the scientific study of the Sámi people. It gives many-faceted basic information of the Sámi people and presents up-to-date views of ...the disciplines related to the Sámi studies, e.g. history, archeology, genetics, linguistics, comparative religion, folkloristics, ethnology etc. It provides scientifically based knowledge of the Sámi during the prehistory and pre-Christianity, dealing with reindeer herding, handicraft, the Sámi languages, Sámi literature and art and civil right questions, including participation in the international movement of the indigenous people. All the authors are eminent experts of their scholarly fields, and all the articles have been revised by the Academic representatives of the Sámi themselves
"Teos esittelee saamentutkimuksen keskeisten alojen uusimmat tulokset ja näkemykset ja päivittää saamelaisia ja saamelaiskulttuuria koskevat tiedot genetiikasta kielitieteeseen ja historiasta nykykulttuuriin. Kirjassa perehdytään myös saamelaisten aineelliseen ja henkiseen perinnekulttuuriin: käsityöhön, poronhoitoon, folkloreen, taiteisiin sekä muinais- ja kansanuskoon. Erityisen painon teoksessa saavat ajankohtaiset ihmisoikeus- ja alkuperäiskansakysymykset. Kaikki kirjoittajat ovat alojensa aktiivitutkijoita. Kirja on 1995 julkaistun Johdatus saamentutkimukseen -teoksen kokonaan uudistettu ja huomattavasti laajennettu laitos."
