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Bendix, Regina; Hasan‐Rokem, Galit

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“…In the contemporary condition, there is polyphony of folklore. It is aptly summed up as ‘folklore is everything’ (Bendix & Hasan-Rokem, 2012), and hence, it is seldom surprising that we have started exploring folk motifs in the modern cultural forms of expressions such as cinema, drama, music, and literature (Dalmia, 2012).…”

Section: Complexity Of Contemporariness In a South Asian Discursive Fmentioning

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Folklore’s Contemporariness: Dynamics of Value Orientation in Bihu

Pathak

Kalita

2019

Journal of Human Values

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The folklore studies scholar, such as Dorson (1976, Folklore and fakelore: Essays toward the discipline of folk studies, Harvard: Harvard University Press), was emphatic about the distinction between folklore and ‘fake lore’, one being authentic and the other as invented by the popular industry; however, he paradoxically maintained interest in the contemporariness of folklore. This was a paradox since the contemporariness of folklore is largely, and usually, due to intersections of folk with popular and political. Nevertheless, the emphasis on contemporariness was a harbinger of discussion on the potential dynamics of folklore, and everything buried therein, including value orientation. This essay is guided by the observations emerging from folklore studies, socio-cultural anthropology and performance studies in order to get into a specific case of Bihu, a folk performance inclusive of songs, dance, attires and instruments inter alia in Assam, in the northeast of India. The curious case of Bihu in flux divulges dynamics of value orientation and intersections of identity politics, in the wake of the contemporariness of folklore.

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Section: Complexity Of Contemporariness In a South Asian Discursive Fmentioning

confidence: 99%

Folklore’s Contemporariness: Dynamics of Value Orientation in Bihu

Pathak

Kalita

2019

Journal of Human Values

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“…3 The study of ancient folklore is thus dependent on the written medium transmitting to us the genres of verbal folklore-although at least partly performed orally-as well as descriptions of other genres, such as rituals and games, and contextual knowledge of all kinds. Folklore, when interwoven into ancient texts, is particularly entangled with other modes of 1 Among many others: (Utley 1965;Ben-Amos 1971;Baumann and Briggs 2001;Bendix and Hasan-Rokem 2014).…”

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Folklore in Antiquity

Hasan‐Rokem

Weiss

2018

Humanities

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Folklore exists in all human groups, small and big. Since early modernity, scholars have provided various definitions of the phenomenon, but earlier texts may also reveal awareness and reflection on the specific character folklore. In this short article, we wish to explore and look into the various definitions and characterizations of folklore given by ancient writers from various times and cultures. We will try to draw a cultural map of awareness to the phenomenon of folklore in ancient Near-Eastern texts, Greco-Roman culture, the Hebrew Bible, Early Christianity and Rabbinic literature. The main questions we wish do deal with are where and if we can find explicit mention of folklore; which folk genres are dominant in ancient writings and what was the social context of ancient folklore? That is to say, whom those text integrated in social frameworks, enabling their users to gain power or to undermine existing cultural, theological and social structures.

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Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building

Horák¹

2022

Folklore

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Folklore’s Contemporariness: Dynamics of Value Orientation in Bihu

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Folklore in Antiquity

Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building

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