Politics about Folklore - Folklore in Politics
In: Human affairs: HA ; postdisciplinary humanities & social sciences quarterly, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 171-182
ISSN: 1337-401X
In: Human affairs: HA ; postdisciplinary humanities & social sciences quarterly, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 171-182
ISSN: 1337-401X
Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community passed through the generations by word of mouth. We introduce to economics a unique catalog of oral traditions spanning approximately 1,000 societies. After validating the catalog's content by showing that the groups' motifs reflect known geographic and social attributes, we present two sets of applications. First, we illustrate how to fill in the gaps and expand upon a group's ethnographic record, focusing on political complexity, high gods, and trade. Second, we discuss how machine learning and human classification methods can help shed light on cultural traits, using gender roles, attitudes toward risk, and trust as examples. Societies with tales portraying men as dominant and women as submissive tend to relegate their women to subordinate positions in their communities, both historically and today. More risk-averse and less entrepreneurial people grew up listening to stories wherein competitions and challenges are more likely to be harmful than beneficial. Communities with low tolerance toward antisocial behavior, captured by the prevalence of tricksters being punished, are more trusting and prosperous today. These patterns hold across groups, countries, and second-generation immigrants. Overall, the results highlight the significance of folklore in cultural economics, calling for additional applications.
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In: Journal of the Royal African Society, Band XXXIX, Heft CLVII, S. 378-379
ISSN: 1468-2621
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In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 67, Heft 1, S. 8-18
ISSN: 0037-6779
In: Human affairs: postdisciplinary humanities & social sciences quarterly, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 171-182
ISSN: 1210-3055
Includes index. ; Most of the essays were originally published in v. 12, no. 2-3, of the journal of the Folklore Institute. ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Mode of access: Internet.
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In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 67, Heft 1, S. 8-18
ISSN: 2325-7784
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) elicits extreme and contradictory audience responses. Some filmgoers find it amusing and clever, while others consider it repulsive, even obscene. Analyzing the film's hero as a traditional and archetypical trickster figure, a master of contradictions, a violator of boundaries, can help explain audience reaction. But while traditional folklore tricksters act in a fantasy world, Sacha Baron Cohen entered the lives of real people in trickster (dis) guise. For theater audiences removed from the interactions that created Borat, this film might serve the function of traditional trickster narratives, even as those appearing in the film feel exploited. By using real people and real situations, Baron Cohen has also precluded a follow-up or sequel: folkloric tricksters adapt with time, but a person immediately recognizable as a Hollywood figure cannot reassume trickster (dis)guise.
In: Folklore
""Kent, sir - everybody knows Kent - apples, cherries, hops and women"" - Mr Jingle in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Kent boasts a plethora of characterising traditions which include hop-growing, smuggling and saints. All this reflects the curious history and geography of the area. It is bounded by sea on three sides, has the longest coastline of any English county and was the base for much maritime activity. This included trade and invasions, which gave rise to communities rich in sea-lore. This book also covers topics such as seasonal customs including harvest tradtions; drama; witchcraf
Editorial: ; Continuan los cambios. ; Aguilera, Oscar ; Presentación ; Las ; miradas de las ciencias humanas. ; Reflections upon the social sciences. ; Silva, Alejandrina ; Damnificados, ; desplazados y colonos. ; Disaster victims displaced and re-settled. ; Morales, Nelson ; Interpretación ; antropológica del mal en la sociedad wayuu. ; An anthropological interpretation of evil in wayuu society. ; Segovia, Yanet ; Elementos ; léxicos y construcción de identidad en el español de Venezuela. ; Lexical elements and formation of identity in venezuelan spanish. ; Ramos, Elvira ; Clientelismo ; y mismidad conflictuada en una comunidad negro-venezolana en un fin de siglo. ; Political favors and sameness of identity in conflict - research within ; a black community in Venezuela at the turn of the 20th century. ; Altez, Yara ; La ; reproducción del desarraigo y las identidades colectivas en la vida cotidiana. ; Alienation and collective identity in everyday life. ; Silva, Alejandrina ; Los ; fundamentalismos religiosos: etapas y contextos de surgimiento. ; Religious fundamentalism: stages and origins. ; Caro, Isaac y Fediakova, Evguenia ; Cultura, ; ética y folklore. ; Culture, ethics and folklore. ; Jáuregui, Ramón M. ; Las ; organizaciones de productores agrícolas en el marco del proceso de globalización ; económica. ; Agricultural peasant organizations in the economic globalization process. ; García Lobo, Ligia ; La ; medicina popular en Venezuela como alternativa al sistema de salud de una ; modernidad en crisis. ; Popular medicine in Venezuela as an option to the defunct public health ; system. ; Pino de Casanova, Malin ; Los ; rostros y los efectos del medicamento. Un análisis socio-cultural. ; Diverse aspects of medication: a socio-cultural analysis. ; Méndez P., María ; Explorando la ciudad ; La ; ciudad como objeto de conocimiento y enseñanza en las ciencias sociales. ; The city as knowledge and teaching subject in the social sciences. ; Aranguren R., Carmen ; Reseñas. ; 469- 476 ; ramonmjo@hotmail.com, ricardojt@hotmail.com ; trimestral ; Nivel analítico
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In: Journalism quarterly: JQ ; devoted to research in journalism and mass communication, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 205-211
ISSN: 0196-3031, 0022-5533
In: Journalism quarterly, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 205-211
The American newspaper is addicted to running news stories based upon the folklore of a people who delight in tall tales, seasonal weather prophecies of groundhogs and robins, and reports of haunted houses, gremlins and flying saucers. The author maintains that this is good editing.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- I. THE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT AND THE THINKING MAN -- II. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- III. THE FOLKLORE OF 1937 -- IV. THE PLACE OF LEARNING IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS -- V. THE USE OF THE LANGUAGE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY To DESCRIBE AN INDUSTRIAL ARMY -- VI. A PLATFORM FOR AN OBSERVER OF GOVERNMENT -- VII. THE TRAPS WHICH LIE IN DEFINITIONS AND POLAR WORDS -- VIII. THE PERSONIFICATION OF CORPORATION -- IX. THE EFFECT OF THE ANTITRUST LAWS IN ENCOURAGING LARGE COMBINATIONS -- X. THE RITUAL OF CORPORATE REORGANIZATION -- XI THE BENEVOLENCE OF TAXATION BY PRIVATE ORGANIZATION -- XII. THE MALEVOLENCE OF TAXATION BY THE GOVERNMENT -- XIII. THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF TOMORROW -- XIV. SOME PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL DYNAMICS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y