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Humble Theory - Folklore's Grasp on Social Life (Paperback)
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Humble Theory - Folklore's Grasp on Social Life (Paperback)
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Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable
glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the
dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and
the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not
easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although
sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore
studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been
marginal and precarious, yet folklore studies are foundational and
persistent. Long engaged with all that escapes the gaze of grand
theory and grand narratives, folklorists have followed the lead of
the people whose practices they study. They attend to local
economies of meaning; they examine the challenge of making room for
maneuver within circumstances one does not control. Incisive and
wide ranging, the fifteen essays in this book chronicle the "humble
theory" of both folk and folklorist as interacting perspectives on
social life in the modern Western world.
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