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Folklore is the body of expressive
culture, including folktales, music, dance,
legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, superstitions, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the
traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture,
subculture, or
group (sociology). It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The academic and usually ethnology study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics.
History
The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological goals; only in the 20th century did
Ethnography begin to attempt to record folklore without overt political goals. The
Brothers Grimm,
Wilhelm Grimm and
Jakob Grimm, collected orally transmitted German tales and published the first series as
Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Children's and Household Tales") in 1812.
The term was coined in 1846 by an Englishman, William Thoms, who wanted to use an
Anglo-Saxon language term for what was then called "popular antiquities."
Johann Gottfried von Herder first advocated the deliberate recording and preservation of folklore to document the authentic spirit, tradition, and identity of the German people; the belief that there can be such authenticity is one of the tenets of the romantic nationalism which Herder developed. The definition most widely accepted by current scholars of the field is "artistic communication in small groups," coined by Dan Ben-Amos a scholar at the
University of Pennsylvania, and the term, and the associated field of study, now include non-verbal art forms and customary practices.
While folklore can contain religious or mythic elements, it equally concerns itself with the sometimes mundane traditions of everyday life. Folklore frequently ties the practical and the esoteric into one narrative package. It has often been conflated with mythology, and vice versa, because it has been assumed that any figurative story that does not pertain to the dominant beliefs of the time is not of the same status as those dominant beliefs. Thus,
Rome religion is called "myth" by Christianity. In that way, both "myth" and "folklore" have become catch-all terms for all figurative narratives which do not correspond with the dominant belief structure. Sometimes "folklore" is religious in nature, like the tales of the Wales
Mabinogion or those found in Icelandic skaldic poetry. Many of the tales in the
Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine also embody folklore elements in a Christian context: examples of such
Christian mythology are the themes woven round
Saint George or Saint Christopher. In this case, the term "folklore" is being used in a pejorative sense. That is, while the tales of Odin the Wanderer have a religious value to the Norse who composed the stories, because it does not fit into a Christian configuration it is not considered "religious" by Christians who may instead refer to it as "folklore."
Folktales are general term for different varieties of traditional narrative. The telling of stories appears to be acultural universal, common to basic and complex societies alike. Even the forms folktales take are certainly similar fromculture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative ways have been successful in showing theserelationships. Also it is considered to be an oral tale to be told for everybody.
On the other hand, folklore can be used to accurately describe a figurative narrative, which has no sacred or religious content. In the Jungian psychology view, which is but one method of analysis, it may instead pertain to unconscious psychological patterns, instincts or archetypes of the mind. This may or may not have components of the
fantasy (such as magic (paranormal), ethereal beings or the personification of inanimate objects). These folktales may or may not emerge from a religious tradition, but nevertheless speak to deep psychological issues. The familiar folktale, "Hansel and Gretel," is an example of this fine line. The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a
cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood theme (literature)s and Motif (literature)s such as “The Terrible Mother”, “Death,” and “Atonement with the Father.” There can be both a moral and psychological scope to the work, as well as entertainment value, depending upon the nature of the teller, the style of the telling, the ages of the audience members, and the overall context of the performance. Folklorists generally resist universal interpretations of
narratives and, wherever possible, analyze
Public speaking versions of tellings in specific contexts, rather than print sources, which often show the work or bias of the writer or editing.
Contemporary narratives common in the Western world include the urban legend. There are many forms of folklore that are so common, however, that most people do not realize they are folklore, such as
riddles, children's
rhymes and
ghost stories, rumors (including
conspiracy theories), gossip,
ethnic stereotypes, and holiday customs and life-cycle
rituals.
UFO abduction narratives can be seen, in some sense, to refigure the tales of pre-Christian
Europe, or even such tales in the Bible as the Ascent of Elijah to heaven.
Adrienne Mayor, in introducing a bibliography on the topic, noted that most modern folklorists are largely unaware of classical parallels and precedents, in materials that are only partly represented by the familiar designation
Aesopica: "Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs, many of which have counterparts in modern contemporary legends" (Mayor, 2000).
The book of prof.
V. Propp " Morphology of the Folktale" (1928) became thefundamental research of structure of folklore texts. In this research the author has discovereda uniform structure of a Russian fairy tale. The book has been translated into English, Italian,Polish and other languages. The English translation has been issued in USA in 1958, i.e.30 years after the publication of the original, and was republished through 10 years.It was met by approving reviews and rendered significant influence on the furtherresearches of folklore and even - in more wider plan - on methods of structural semantics.
Categories of folklore
- National or ethnic (see romantic nationalism)
See also
- Folk
- Applied folklore
- Public folklore
- Chinook wind#Chinooks and tall tales (folklore), section Chinooks and tall tales.
- Petrosomatoglyph — image of parts of a human or animal body incised in rock
References
- L. V. Propp, Morphology of the Folktale, Second Edition, revised and edited with a Preface of Louis A. Wagner, University of Texas Press, 1968.
Further reading
- Adrienne Mayor, "Bibliography of Classical Folklore Scholarship: Myths, Legends, and Popular Beliefs of Ancient Greece and Rome", from Folklore (April 2000)
External links
- Folklore Festivals - international listing
North America
- American Folklore
- American Folklore Society
- American Folklife Center
- Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
- Folkstreams
- Western States Folklore Society
- Folklore Studies Association of Canada
- Folklore and Folklife Studies at Penn
- Indiana University's Folklore Program
- The Ohio State University Center for Folklore Studies
- Folklore Program at the University of California at Berkeley
- Memorial University of Newfoundland's Folklore Program
- Folklore Program at Western Kentucky University
- Folklore Program at Utah State University
- University of Oregon's Folklore Program
- Folklore Program at the University of North Carolina
- World Arts and Cultures Program of the University of California at Los Angeles
- Ukrainian Folklore Centre, University of Alberta
- Ukrainian Traditional Folklore, University of Alberta
- Slavic and East European Folklore Association
- The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition, University of Missouri
- Oral Tradition Journal
- Folklore Program at University of Wisconsin
- McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina
- Digital Traditions
United Kingdom
- The Folklore Society, founded 1878 — very extensive links list among much else
Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including
folktales,
music, dance,
legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes,
superstitions, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture,
subculture, or
group (sociology). It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The academic and usually ethnology study of folklore is sometimes called
folkloristics.
History
The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological goals; only in the 20th century did
Ethnography begin to attempt to record folklore without overt political goals. The Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm, collected orally transmitted German tales and published the first series as
Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Children's and Household Tales") in 1812.
The term was coined in 1846 by an Englishman,
William Thoms, who wanted to use an
Anglo-Saxon language term for what was then called "popular antiquities." Johann Gottfried von Herder first advocated the deliberate recording and preservation of folklore to document the authentic spirit, tradition, and identity of the German people; the belief that there can be such authenticity is one of the tenets of the
romantic nationalism which Herder developed. The definition most widely accepted by current scholars of the field is "artistic communication in small groups," coined by Dan Ben-Amos a scholar at the
University of Pennsylvania, and the term, and the associated field of study, now include non-verbal art forms and customary practices.
While folklore can contain religious or mythic elements, it equally concerns itself with the sometimes mundane traditions of everyday life. Folklore frequently ties the practical and the esoteric into one narrative package. It has often been conflated with
mythology, and vice versa, because it has been assumed that any figurative story that does not pertain to the dominant beliefs of the time is not of the same status as those dominant beliefs. Thus,
Rome religion is called "myth" by
Christianity. In that way, both "myth" and "folklore" have become catch-all terms for all figurative narratives which do not correspond with the dominant belief structure. Sometimes "folklore" is religious in nature, like the tales of the
Wales Mabinogion or those found in
Icelandic skaldic poetry. Many of the tales in the
Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine also embody folklore elements in a Christian context: examples of such Christian mythology are the themes woven round
Saint George or Saint Christopher. In this case, the term "folklore" is being used in a pejorative sense. That is, while the tales of Odin the Wanderer have a religious value to the Norse who composed the stories, because it does not fit into a Christian configuration it is not considered "religious" by Christians who may instead refer to it as "folklore."
Folktales are general term for different varieties of traditional narrative. The telling of stories appears to be acultural universal, common to basic and complex societies alike. Even the forms folktales take are certainly similar fromculture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative ways have been successful in showing theserelationships. Also it is considered to be an oral tale to be told for everybody.
On the other hand, folklore can be used to accurately describe a figurative narrative, which has no sacred or religious content. In the Jungian psychology view, which is but one method of analysis, it may instead pertain to unconscious psychological patterns, instincts or
archetypes of the mind. This may or may not have components of the
fantasy (such as magic (paranormal), ethereal beings or the personification of inanimate objects). These folktales may or may not emerge from a religious tradition, but nevertheless speak to deep psychological issues. The familiar folktale, "
Hansel and Gretel," is an example of this fine line. The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood
theme (literature)s and Motif (literature)s such as “The Terrible Mother”, “Death,” and “Atonement with the Father.” There can be both a moral and psychological scope to the work, as well as entertainment value, depending upon the nature of the teller, the style of the telling, the ages of the audience members, and the overall context of the
performance. Folklorists generally resist universal interpretations of
narratives and, wherever possible, analyze Public speaking versions of tellings in specific contexts, rather than print sources, which often show the work or bias of the writer or
editing.
Contemporary narratives common in the Western world include the
urban legend. There are many forms of folklore that are so common, however, that most people do not realize they are folklore, such as
riddles, children's rhymes and
ghost stories, rumors (including
conspiracy theories), gossip,
ethnic stereotypes, and holiday customs and life-cycle
rituals.
UFO abduction narratives can be seen, in some sense, to refigure the tales of pre-Christian
Europe, or even such tales in the Bible as the Ascent of Elijah to heaven.
Adrienne Mayor, in introducing a bibliography on the topic, noted that most modern folklorists are largely unaware of classical parallels and precedents, in materials that are only partly represented by the familiar designation
Aesopica: "Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs, many of which have counterparts in modern contemporary legends" (Mayor, 2000).
The book of prof.
V. Propp " Morphology of the Folktale" (1928) became thefundamental research of structure of folklore texts. In this research the author has discovereda uniform structure of a Russian fairy tale. The book has been translated into English, Italian,Polish and other languages. The English translation has been issued in USA in 1958, i.e.30 years after the publication of the original, and was republished through 10 years.It was met by approving reviews and rendered significant influence on the furtherresearches of folklore and even - in more wider plan - on methods of structural semantics.
Categories of folklore
- National or ethnic (see romantic nationalism)
See also
- Folk
- Applied folklore
- Public folklore
- Chinook wind#Chinooks and tall tales (folklore), section Chinooks and tall tales.
- Petrosomatoglyph — image of parts of a human or animal body incised in rock
References
- L. V. Propp, Morphology of the Folktale, Second Edition, revised and edited with a Preface of Louis A. Wagner, University of Texas Press, 1968.
Further reading
- Adrienne Mayor, "Bibliography of Classical Folklore Scholarship: Myths, Legends, and Popular Beliefs of Ancient Greece and Rome", from Folklore (April 2000)
External links
- Folklore Festivals - international listing
North America
- American Folklore
- American Folklore Society
- American Folklife Center
- Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
- Folkstreams
- Western States Folklore Society
- Folklore Studies Association of Canada
- Folklore and Folklife Studies at Penn
- Indiana University's Folklore Program
- The Ohio State University Center for Folklore Studies
- Folklore Program at the University of California at Berkeley
- Memorial University of Newfoundland's Folklore Program
- Folklore Program at Western Kentucky University
- Folklore Program at Utah State University
- University of Oregon's Folklore Program
- Folklore Program at the University of North Carolina
- World Arts and Cultures Program of the University of California at Los Angeles
- Ukrainian Folklore Centre, University of Alberta
- Ukrainian Traditional Folklore, University of Alberta
- Slavic and East European Folklore Association
- The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition, University of Missouri
- Oral Tradition Journal
- Folklore Program at University of Wisconsin
- McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina
- Digital Traditions
United Kingdom
- The Folklore Society, founded 1878 — very extensive links list among much else
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