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The Practice of Folklore - Essays toward a Theory of Tradition (Paperback)
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The Practice of Folklore - Essays toward a Theory of Tradition (Paperback)
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Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace
customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, often characterized
as folklore. In The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of
Tradition, author Simon J. Bronner works with theories of cultural
practice to explain the social and psychological need for tradition
in everyday life. Bronner proposes a distinctive "praxic"
perspective that will answer the pressing philosophical as well as
psychological question of why people enjoy repeating themselves.
The significance of the keyword practice, he asserts, is the
embodiment of a tension between repetition and variation in human
behavior. Thinking with practice, particularly in a digital world,
forces redefinitions of folklore and a reorientation toward
interpreting everyday life. More than performance or enactment in
social theory, practice connects localized culture with the
vernacular idea that "this is the way we do things around here."
Practice refers to the way those things are analyzed as part of,
rather than apart from, theory, thus inviting the study of
studying. "The way we do things" invokes the social basis of
"doing" in practice as cultural and instrumental. Building on
previous studies of tradition in relation to creativity, Bronner
presents an overview of practice theory and the ways it might be
used in folklore and folklife studies. Demonstrating the
application of this theory in folkloristic studies, Bronner offers
four provocative case studies of psychocultural meanings that arise
from traditional frames of action and address issues of our times:
referring to the boogieman; connecting "wild child" beliefs to
school shootings; deciphering the offensive chants of sports fans;
and explicating male bravado in bawdy singing. Turning his analysis
to the analysts of tradition, Bronner uses practice theory to
evaluate the agenda of folklorists in shaping perceptions of
tradition-centered "folk societies" such as the Amish. He further
unpacks the culturally based rationale of public folklore
programming. He interprets the evolving idea of folk museums in a
digital world and assesses how the folklorists' terms and actions
affect how people think about tradition.
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