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Explaining traditions : folk behavior in modern culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bronner, Simon J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2011]
Subjects:
Communication in folklore > United States.
Oral tradition > United States.
Folklore > United States.
United States > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Defining tradition: on the meaning and politics of a "handy" concept
  • Explaining tradition: on folk and folkloristic logic
  • Building tradition: on control and authority in vernacular architecture
  • Making tradition: on craft in American consciousness
  • Adapting tradition: on folklore in human development
  • Fading tradition: on a dying language and lore
  • Personalizing tradition: on storytelling by an African American father and son
  • Symbolizing tradition: on the scatology of an ethnic identity
  • Sporting tradition: on the praxis of American football
  • Virtual tradition: on the Internet as a folk system.