Folk Logic: Interpretation and Explanation in Folkloristics

Various reference works and textbooks list a number of theories that folklorists learn and apply as part of their intellectual heritage: evolutionary, diffusionist, literary, aesthetic, functionalist, historical-geographic, hemispheric, nationalist, mass-cultural, behavioristic, performance, context...

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Published in:	Western folklore 2006-10, Vol.65 (4), p.401-433
Main Author:	Bronner, Simon J.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Cultural anthropology Cultural background Cultural studies Dundes, Alan Ethnography explanation Feminism Folk culture Folklore Folkloristics Folktales Functionalism history and study of folklore Humor Hypotheses Ideology interpretation Logic Name changes Nazi groups Oring, Elliott poststructuralism research methods (folklore) Traditions
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Summary:	Various reference works and textbooks list a number of theories that folklorists learn and apply as part of their intellectual heritage: evolutionary, diffusionist, literary, aesthetic, functionalist, historical-geographic, hemispheric, nationalist, mass-cultural, behavioristic, performance, contextual, psychoanalytic, ideological, Marxist, formalist, oral-formulaic, and feminist (Bronner 2006; Brunvand 1998; Burns 1989; Bronner 1986; Dorson 1972). Sounding like the cry of mid-life crisis forty years after the paradigm shift from the focus on texts to contexts, Jeremiahs often make the dire announcement that the discipline has stagnated, and therefore it has lost its way and needs a face-lift, shot in the arm, or name change.
ISSN:	0043-373X 2325-811X