History of Folklore Theory and Method Research Papers (original) (raw)

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- Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Folklore, Media and Cultural Studies
- by Éva Mikos
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- History of Folklore Theory and Method
- by Jennifer Schacker
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- History of Folklore Theory and Method, Fairy tales

The ningen, a giant, sub-Antarctic aquatic humanoid, is a mythical creature created by Japanese Internet users in the mid:2000s. Since its inception it has crossed over into international Internet contexts and has been embellished and inflected in various ways. As such it forms an element within modern media:lore, joining a host of pre: constituted mythic/folkloric creatures and more modern inventions. One of the most notable aspects of ningen media-lore is that the creature was conceived as an inhabitant of sub:Antarctic waters, which have not traditionally been perceived to be rich in crypto-zoological entities. Within this location it has been closely associated with Japan’s Southern Ocean whaling fleet and can, in this regard, be understood as a manifestation of a modern aquapelagic imaginary. The article identifies that the original location of the ningen’s story is not merely incidental to its circulation and elaboration but is, rather, a key element of its emergence as a Japanese figure and a continuing aspect of its significance in a broader, international arena.

- by Felicity Greenland
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- Cryptozoology, Japanese Studies, Folklore, Mythology

Après avoir envisagé brièvement l'étude de la littérature comme objet de l'anthropologie et, plus particulièrement, de la littérature orale, nous étudierons le processus d'institutionnalisation des ces savoirs ethnographiques en Europe, en prenant soin de mettre en évidence les liens ambigus que ceux-ci ont noué, d'un point de vue historique, avec le Politique, notamment du point de vue de la construction des identités en Europe, au cours du XIX e siècle. À partir d'exemples concrets cet enseignement étudiera, par la suite, les principaux concepts, théories et méthodes d'analyse de ce terrain littéraire de l'ethnologie.

- by Vladimír Bahna
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- Folklore, Memory (Cognitive Psychology), Ethnology, False Memory

В издание избранных трудов великого украинского филолога А.А. Потебни (1835–1891) включены его книги «Мысль и язык» и «О некоторых символах в славянской народной поэзии», цикл лекций «Психология поэтического и прозаического мышления»,... more

- by Andrey Toporkov
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- Folklore, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Language, Ukrainian Studies

Humans have a propensity to generate, refine and pass on the knowledge from one generation to another, so that their tradition is conserved through several generations. One of the most important aspects of traditional knowledge is "folklore", which like other forms of traditional knowledge is under threat of exploitation as a result of too much of technological advancement and industrialization. T he whole scheme of research is based on the hypothesis that Folklore is required to be protected as an Intellectual property but doesn"t qualifies to be an Intellectual Property(IP) under the existing regime and altogether a suigeneris approach by way of legislation or amendment in the existing legislatio n is the need of the hour. T he existing Intellectual Property(IP) regime is an ineffective tool to protect the diverse folklore. Through research, an argument can be primed that whether Rajasthan"s Phad Painting, a folk art can be socially and legally protected in the form of folklore through a sui-generis protection system like T unisian Copyright model and African Music Project. Through this research on Folklore vis-à-vis the IPR regime the researcher aims to examine if the folklore fits into the definition of "intellectual works/s" as protected under the IPR regime in India and across the globe and to look into the vulnerability of folklores like Phad Painting the folk art of Rajasthan and the address the need for protection. T he research is primarily based on Doctrinal method of research wherein the researcher shall carry out the detailed study of primary sources as well as secondary sources. The scope of research is limited to only one Folklore i.e. Phad Painting, which is the famous folk art of Rajasthan.

- by Simon J Cook
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- Mythology And Folklore, Archaeology, English Literature, Self and Identity

Stoyan Dzhudzhev, rhythmic protozoa and ethnomusicological myths.
Stoyan Dzhudzhev (1902-1997) – Bulgarian ethnomusicologist and supporter of diachronic folkloristics – claimed the existence of rhythmic one-celled primitive-protozoa. He presented the example of a Bulgarian carol, whose structure is based on the exact repetition of an iambic rhythmic formula and therefore, according to him, is evidence of an elementary human creative capacity. This thesis is challenged by the author of the present article. Based on analysis of melodics of the same song and its connections with other genres and ethnic traditions with the same rhythmic formula, he claims the foundational absence of rhythmic protozoa. Musical primitive is a musicological myth: where there is art there is always complexity.
Key words: Stoyan Dzhudzhev, rhythmic one-celled pseudoprimitive, Bulgarian carol (“koledarska”), the initial complexity of the arts.

- by Izaly Zemtsovsky
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- Folklore, Ethnomusicology, History of Folklore Theory and Method, Rhythmanalysis
- by Konrad Kuhn
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- Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ritual, Alpine history, Ritual (Anthropology)

The articles in this anthology discuss the application of retrospective methods to a wide range of historical disciplines: Old Norse studies in a wide sense, folkloristics, history of religion, etymology, early Germanic iconography and cultural history, Uralic historical linguistics, and historical geography. The articles are the result of the conference New Focus on Retrospective Methods, held in Bergen by the Retrospective Methods Network and the Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) at the University of Bergen, 27–8 September 2010.

- by Eldar Heide and +3
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- Mythology And Folklore, Historical Geography, History of Religion, Etymology

Dennis Ioffe, Andrey Toporkov, Aleksey Yudin. "Russian Literature", Elsevier Science, Volumes 93–94, 2017, Pages 2-47.
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Literature and magic: how did these two entities coexist with each other during various periods of human history? What is magic? How was it ritually perceived in Europe? Which theoretical and scholarly approaches might assist us in devising its historical scope and literary ambiance? The introductory essay helps positioning a number of major conceptual issues regarding magic and its role in cultural and literary studies with special attention paid to Russian literature, spells, the supernatural and folklore. The essay offers a detailed historical overview of the main hermeneutical trends regarding magic, proceeding to Russian literature with special attention to Russian Symbolism (Aleksandr Blok and Valerii Briusov) and Russian Avant-Garde (Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh). The Introduction also positions the special volume’s papers within the broader context of magic and supernatural.

BLURB: Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire. Thrilling and profound, Dewa Ruci describes the mighty Bratasena’s quest for the ultimate mystical insight.
The book presents Dewa Ruci as rendered by the distinguished master puppeteer Ki Anom Soeroto in Amsterdam in 1987. The book’s unusual design presents the performance texts together with descriptions of the sounds and images that would remain obscure in conventional formats of presentation. Copious annotations probe beneath the surface and provide an understanding of the performance's cultural complexity. These annotations explain the meanings of puppet action, music, and shifts in language; how the puppeteer wove together into the drama the circumstances of the performance in Amsterdam, Islamic and other religious ideas, and references to contemporary Indonesian political ideology. Also revealed is the performance’s historical multilayering and the picture it paints of the Javanese past.
Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind not only presents an unrivalled insight into the artistic depth of wayang kulit, it exemplifies a new field of study, the philology of performance.

- by Bernard Arps
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- Philology, Comparative Religion, Mythology And Folklore, Folklore
- by Shalom Sabar
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- Mythology And Folklore, Folklore, Art History, Jewish Studies
- by Frank Korom
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- Comparative Religion, Mythology And Folklore, Folklore, Comparative Politics

Данная книга - итог многолетних исследований, предпринятых автором в области русской мифологии.

- by Riccardo Rao
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- Mythology And Folklore, History, Anthropology, Folklore

Draft of encyclopedia entry on pioneering folk narrative scholar Linda Degh (1918-2014) for the Sage Encyclopedia of Research Methods.

- by İrfan Polat
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- Folklore, Siberia, Folklore (Literature), History of Folklore Theory and Method
- by Francesca Bihet
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- Folklore, Historiography, Literary History, History of Folklore Theory and Method
- by carlos carrasco
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- Mythology And Folklore, Cultural Studies, Folklore, Media and Cultural Studies

In recent years, the field of memory studies has emerged as a key approach in the humanities and social sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that memory studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the nearly eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of memory studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.
-Interdisciplinary volume on memory studies in Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia
-Texts and images illustrating the awareness of memory in, and the role of memory studies for, the Old Norse world
-Entries and case studies by nearly eighty specialists representing a wide variety of fields

- by Stephen Mitchell
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- Mythology And Folklore, Folklore, Medieval History, Nordic Studies

AARNE-THOMPSON’S CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
IN SERBIAN FOLKLORE
Summary
The paper gives an overview of Aarne-Thompson (since 2004: Aarne-Thompson-
Uther) system in Serbian folkloristics. In the first half of 20th century researchers
of folk tales like Pavle Popović and Veselin Čajkanović were familiar with Aarne’s
index (1910) and used it for classification of genres both in theory and in tale
collections. Still, folkloristics was dominated by research of epic poetry and AaTh
system was not given a full attention. For example, Thompson’s motif index
spurned Branislav Krstić to make index of motif of Balkan Slavic epic songs. From
1914 to 1940s ethnologist Ljubica Janković made her catallogization of folk tales
based not on AaTh but on her own system that remained in manuscript. Since
1950s and 1960s folkloristics in ex-Yugoslavia started working intensivelly on
collecting and indexing folk tales: institutes for folklore were established and that
was initial work for making indices (work of Croatian scholar Maja Bošković-
Stulli was especially influental). In Serbia through work of Nada MiloševićĐorđević
intensive application of tale types system was launched parallely with
newer methods, like structuralism, that appeared in confrotation with historicogeographical
method. This seemingly paradoxical situation was due to the wish to
compensate work on folk tales that in other academias was done in the first half of
the century and to introduce new method at the same time. In early 1990s Snežana
Samardžija in her PhD thesis (unpublished) applied AaTh (1961) on Serbian
collections of 19th century. Contemporary research has established the use of the
types, but there is still work to be done. ATU system can also be important indicator
of cultural contact on Balkans and in bilingual millieus. Special attention should be
paid to legends (Sagen): even early researchers tried to fit them into the system and
since 1960s on, when folkloristics in world started working intensivelly on them,
folkloristis in Serbia saw legends as category that should be classified under tale
type system but that at the same time challenges the very system.

This paper gives an overview of anthropological and folklorstic approaches to belief, and proposes its examination as a response to specific contextual factors. It approaches belief
as emerging from “participatory consciousness,” a state of mind that exists alongside rational consciousness in all human societies. Examples are drawn from the cultures of magico-religious healers in Italy and modern Pagans in North America and Western Europe.
KEYWORDS: belief, magic, history of folklore theory, folk healing, modern Pagans

- by Roslyn Frank
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- Mythology And Folklore, Anthropology, Folklore, Medical Anthropology

Abstract
The terminology issue comes up during one of the anonymous folk narrations', the myths', collection in the field. Within this study, the word "myth/legend" is examined through various meanings attributed to it. The folklorist, on fieldwork in order to compile a "myth", faces the difficulties caused by the meanings attributed to the word "myth/legend" by the sources. In the study, to present the reasons of these difficulties, first of all, the various meanings attributed to the term "myth/legend" have been emphasized in Turkish among different centuries. Then, it's been studied to determine the meanings for the word "myth/legend" had been used in daily life since 16th century to this day from the data both by written works generated in the written culture and media organs and source contacts. Last, the meanings for the word, description and the characteristics of the myths after the word "myth/legend" is acknowledged as a science branch of folklore in Turkey have been mentioned.
Keywords: Folklore, Folk Literature, Term, Myth, Fieldwork .
Özet
Bu çalışmada anonim halk anlatılarından biri olan "efsane"lerin sahada derlenmesi esnasında karşılaşılan terim sorunu, farklı kültür ortamlarında geçmişten günümüze "efsane" kelimesine yüklenen anlamlar irdelenerek ele alınmıştır. "Efsane" derlemek amacıyla sahada çalışma yapan halk bilimci, kaynak kişilerin "efsane" kelimesine yüklediği anlamların sebep olduğu zorluklarla karşılaşmaktadır. Çalışmada bu zorlukların sebeplerini ortaya koymak amacıyla ilk olarak "efsane" terimine Türkçede farklı yüzyıllarda ne gibi anlamlar yüklendiği üzerinde durulmuştur. Daha sonra 16. yüzyıldan günümüze gelinceye kadar gerek yazılı kültür içerisinde oluşturulan yazma eserlerden gerek basın yayın organlarından gerekse kaynak kişilerden elde edilen verilerle günlük hayatta "efsane" kelimesinin hangi anlamlarda kullanıldığı tespit edilmeye çalışılmıştır. Son olarak da "efsane" kelimesinin Türkiye'de halk biliminin bir bilim dalı olarak kabul görmesinden sonra bu disiplin içerisinde hangi anlamda kullanıldığına tanımına ve efsanelerin özelliklerine değinilmiştir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Halk Bilimi, Halk Edebiyatı, Terim, Efsane, Derleme.

- by Zuzana Profantová
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- Folklore, History of Folklore Theory and Method, Folkloristics

Текст диссертационной работы

- by Daria Trynkina
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- Mythology And Folklore, Anthropology, Folklore, Victorian Studies
- by Luis Ángel Sánchez Gómez
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- History, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Folklore

Прагматика литературно-фольклорного взаимодействия в русских литературных текстах Нового времени

- by Николаев Олег and +1
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- Russian Literature, Folklore, Folklore (Literature), History of Folklore Theory and Method

Folklor ve Kapsamı İnsanın ilk ortaya çıkışından günümüze kadar insanı ve faaliyetlerini kültürel birikimlerini bilimsel olarak derleyen bir bilim dalı olan folklor maddi manevi bütün kültür ögelerini araştırmak, kurallarını belirlemek ve bilimsel sonuçlarını halka aktarmayı görev edinmiştir. Folklor İngilizcede halk anlamına gelen "folk" ve bilgi bilim anlamına gelen "lor" sözcüğünün birleşmesiyle oluşmuştur. Türkçe karşılığı ise "halkbilim"dir. Sadece insan grubu olmaktan öte bir kültürün taşıyıcısıdır. Sözü edilen kültür unsurları müzik, oyunu, el sanatları, gelenek görenekler ve milleti oluşturan ögelerin birleşimidir.

- by Ph.D. Aytaç Bozkuyu
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- Mythology And Folklore, Folklore, Folklore (Literature), Folklore Archeology

Malgré des milliers de contes collectés
et publiés à travers le monde, il se niche dans cette grande constellation un objet fabuleux non identifié : le conte étiologique ou explicatif. Celui qui pose des questions parfois loufoques sur l’univers et l’humanité,
comme par exemple pourquoi le mariage du soleil fut-il annulé, et apporte des réponses inattendues. Il est là pour faire le lien entre le passé mythique et le présent prosaïque, pour donner à celui-ci du sens et de la poésie. Le livre est consacré en grande partie à l’exploration de
ces contes séculaires, car les contes sont aussi les traces de migrations très anciennes, à commencer par celles qui ont amené nos ancêtres en Europe et en Asie il y a des dizaines de milliers d’années avant J.-C. L’ouvrage se penche également sur les motifs qui traversent toute l’Europe : comment s’expriment les plantes dans les contes ? pourquoi l’homme
vit une « vie de chien » ? comment chaque peuple obtint-il son destin ? Une attention particulière est portée à l’est de l’Europe, où les contes font encore partie de la tradition orale. L’aventure dans le domaine russe rend presque inévitable la rencontre avec Baba Yaga, la sorcière mondialement connue. On partira à la recherche de ses origines, ce qui nous fera traverser le conte, l’imagerie populaire et les débuts de la littérature russe. On la croisera encore lorsqu’on s’intéressera aux mutations du conte russe au XXe siècle, aux périodes de disgrâce et de réhabilitation.

- by Ioana Repciuc and +1
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- Folklore, Archives, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), History of Folklore Theory and Method