Theorizing, collecting, archiving, reviving: the lives (or life?) of folklore
| Autor: | Vito Carrassi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Folk Life. 55:1-11 |
| ISSN: | 1759-670X 0430-8778 |
| Popis: | Lauri Honko’s classification of folklore into two main domains, first life and second life, is an effective tool to understand historical processes of folklore, within a broader cultural frame. Yet, a reassessment of these concepts is necessary, in order to detect both the actual boundaries separating the two lives of folklore, and also their intersections and interactions. Accordingly, questions addressed in this paper ask: where does the work of field collecting lie? And that of archiving? In the first or in the second life? Or somewhere in between? And where do revivals and revivalism fit in this bifurcated model? The Irish Revival/Renaissance was certainly a form of discovery, re-evaluation and re-use of folklore, then a fulfilment of its second life. But how does revival/ism affect the first life of folklore and its bearers? Finally, is it really fitting to conceive of two lives of folklore, or is there just one life, made up of a number of heterogeneous phenomena? Here, I discuss these issue... |
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