Journal•ISSN: 0737-7037
Journal of Folklore Research
Indiana University Press
About: Journal of Folklore Research is an academic journal published by Indiana University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Folklore & Narrative. It has an ISSN identifier of 0737-7037. Over the lifetime, 371 publications have been published receiving 3107 citations. The journal is also known as: JFR.
Topics: Folklore, Narrative, Folkloristics, Context (language use), Ethnography
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TL;DR: In this paper, the author's accepted manuscript is available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/3814314. The publisher's version of this manuscript can also be found online.
Abstract: This is the author's accepted manuscript. The publisher's version is available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/3814314.
133 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest the value of a kind of cultural theory that attends to the cultural poesis of forms of living, such as textures and rhythms, trajectories, and modes of attunement, attachment, and composition.
Abstract: This article suggests the value of a kind of cultural theory that attends to the cultural poesis of forms of living. Its objects are textures and rhythms, trajectories, and modes of attunement, attachment, and composition. The point is not to judge the value of these objects or to somehow get their representation "right" but to wonder where they might go and what potential modes of knowing, relating, and attending to things are already present in them.
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TL;DR: The authors present diverses contributions critiques sur les motifs des contes, l'eurocentrisme des sources utilisees for les indexations, les chevauchements des motifs apparaissant dans un meme conte, la censure implicite dans le choix des conte-types, enfin les motif secondaires ou fantomes qui echappent aux classifications.
Abstract: On reconnait que les six volumes d'indexation de la litterature populaire (Motif-Index of Folk-Literature) et les travaux de Aarne et Thompson constituent les meilleurs outils pour l'analyse des contes. Sans remettre en cause un tel apport, la notion de conte-type souleve toujours de nombreuses critiques. L'A. de cet article presente diverses contributions critiques sur les motifs des contes, l'eurocentrisme des sources utilisees pour les indexations, les chevauchements des motifs apparaissant dans un meme conte, la censure implicite dans le choix des conte-types, enfin les motifs secondaires ou fantomes qui echappent aux classifications.
80 citations
TL;DR: The authors identify three main orientations of tradition: tradition as a communicative transaction, tradition as temporal ideology, and tradition as communal property, and propose that scholars explore yet another working definition of tradition, the transfer of responsibility for a valued practice or performance.
Abstract: This article traces "tradition" as a keyword of Western modernity, circulating between general and scholarly usage and between analytic and ideological applications. After a historical overview, I identify three main orientations: tradition as a communicative transaction, tradition as a temporal ideology, and tradition as communal property. I conclude by proposing that scholars explore yet another working definition of tradition: the transfer of responsibility for a valued practice or performance.
61 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the Robin Hood principle is expressed in a general principle and modeled as an iterated cycle of cause and effect that is profoundly implicated in folklore, providing a broad understanding of the production and perpetuation of outlaw hero figures.
Abstract: The debate over the social bandit's existence has raged ever since the original publication of Eric Hobsawm's Social Bandits in 1969. Hobsbawm's argument that a few individuals in the history of crime and politics transcend the status of the criminal to become truly representative of an oppressed group's struggle has been reinforced or attacked by historians, anthropologists, and political scientists. Given folklorists' interest in the origins, roles, and meanings of heroes, it is odd that folklorists have only marginally participated in these debates. This study of outlaws offers a mediation between the conflicting poles of the debate. By investigating both the history and folklore surrounding outlaw heroes, the mythologies that produce and sustain them can be understood as a series of identifiable cultural processes. These processes can be expressed in a general principle—the Robin Hood principle—and modeled as an iterated cycle of cause and effect that is profoundly implicated in folklore. As well as providing a broad understanding of the production and perpetuation of outlaw hero figures, the model also has a predictive dimension.
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