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The study of folklore has historically focused on the daily life
and culture of regular people, such as artisans, storytellers, and
craftspeople. But what can folklore reveal about strategies of
belonging, survival, and reinvention in moments of crisis? The
experience of living in hostile conditions for cultural, social,
political, or economic reasons has redefined communities in crisis.
The curated works in Theorizing Folklore from the Margins offer
clear and feasible suggestions for how to ethically engage in the
study of folklore with marginalized populations. By focusing on
issues of critical race and ethnic studies, decolonial and
antioppressive methodologies, and gender and sexuality studies,
contributors employ a wide variety of disciplines and theoretical
approaches. In doing so, they reflect the transdisciplinary
possibilities of Folklore studies. By bridging the gap between
theory and practice, Theorizing Folklore from the Margins confirms
that engaging with oppressed communities is not only relevant, but
necessary.
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Advancing Folkloristics (Paperback)
Jesse A. Fivecoate, Kristina Downs, Meredith A. E. McGriff; Contributions by Margaret A. Mills, Kay Turner, …
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R644
Discovery Miles 6 440
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of
class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in
the US, raising the question: How can folklorists contribute to
these contemporary political affairs? Since the nature of
folkloristics transcends binaries, can it help others develop
critical personal narratives? Advancing Folkloristics covers topics
such as queer, feminist, and postcolonial scholarship in
folkloristics. Contributors investigate how to apply folkloristic
approaches in nonfolklore classrooms, how to maintain a folklorist
identity without a "folklorist" job title, and how to use
folkloristic knowledge to interact with others outside of the
discipline. The chapters, which range from theoretical
reorientations to personal experiences of folklore work, all
demonstrate the kinds of work folklorists are well-suited to and
promote the areas in which folkloristics is poised to expand and
excel. Advancing Folkloristics presents a clear picture of folklore
studies today and articulates how it must adapt in the future.
A study of the interchange between Cuba and Africa of Yoruban
people and culture during the nineteenth century, with special
emphasis on the Aguda community. Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the
Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved
across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive
waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from
Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to
Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became
known as the Aguda. This community built their own neighborhood
that celebrated their Afrolatino heritage. For these Yoruba and
Afro-Cuban diasporic populations, nostalgic constructions of family
and community play the role of narrating and locating a longed-for
home. By providing a link between the workings of nostalgia and the
construction of home, this volume re-theorizes cultural imaginaries
as a source for diasporic community reinvention. Through
ethnographic fieldwork and research in folkloristics, Otero reveals
that the Aguda identify strongly with their Afro-Cuban roots in
contemporary times. Their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to
Cuban, and back again, in a manner that illustrates the truly
cyclical nature of transnational Atlantic community affiliation.
SolimarOtero is Associate Professor of English and a folklorist at
Louisiana State University. Her research centers on gender,
sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and Yoruba traditional
religion in folklore, literature and ethnography. Dr. Otero is the
recipient of a Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund grant (2013), a
fellowship at the Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in
Religion Program (2009 to 2010), and a Fulbright award (2001).
The study of folklore has historically focused on the daily life
and culture of regular people, such as artisans, storytellers, and
craftspeople. But what can folklore reveal about strategies of
belonging, survival, and reinvention in moments of crisis? The
experience of living in hostile conditions for cultural, social,
political, or economic reasons has redefined communities in crisis.
The curated works in Theorizing Folklore from the Margins offer
clear and feasible suggestions for how to ethically engage in the
study of folklore with marginalized populations. By focusing on
issues of critical race and ethnic studies, decolonial and
antioppressive methodologies, and gender and sexuality studies,
contributors employ a wide variety of disciplines and theoretical
approaches. In doing so, they reflect the transdisciplinary
possibilities of Folklore studies. By bridging the gap between
theory and practice, Theorizing Folklore from the Margins confirms
that engaging with oppressed communities is not only relevant, but
necessary.
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Advancing Folkloristics (Hardcover)
Jesse A. Fivecoate, Kristina Downs, Meredith A. E. McGriff; Contributions by Margaret A. Mills, Kay Turner, …
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R1,920
Discovery Miles 19 200
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of
class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in
the US, raising the question: How can folklorists contribute to
these contemporary political affairs? Since the nature of
folkloristics transcends binaries, can it help others develop
critical personal narratives? Advancing Folkloristics covers topics
such as queer, feminist, and postcolonial scholarship in
folkloristics. Contributors investigate how to apply folkloristic
approaches in nonfolklore classrooms, how to maintain a folklorist
identity without a "folklorist" job title, and how to use
folkloristic knowledge to interact with others outside of the
discipline. The chapters, which range from theoretical
reorientations to personal experiences of folklore work, all
demonstrate the kinds of work folklorists are well-suited to and
promote the areas in which folkloristics is poised to expand and
excel. Advancing Folkloristics presents a clear picture of folklore
studies today and articulates how it must adapt in the future.
In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto
Rican Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble, the dead tell stories.
Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice,
make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living
archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero
explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative
spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation
of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a
Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and
ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of
gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls
archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or
reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are
stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial
repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers,
and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking
the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over
ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers
the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual
practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance.
Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality,
temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized
questions about how spirits shape communities of practice,
ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply
connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship.
In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto
Rican Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble, the dead tell stories.
Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice,
make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living
archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero
explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative
spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation
of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a
Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and
ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of
gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls
archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or
reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are
stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial
repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers,
and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking
the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over
ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers
the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual
practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance.
Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality,
temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized
questions about how spirits shape communities of practice,
ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply
connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship.
This is the first collection of essays to analyze intersectional
religious and cultural practices surrounding the deity Yemoja. In
Afro-Atlantic traditions, Yemoja is associated with motherhood,
women, the arts, and the family. This book reveals how Yemoja
traditions are negotiating gender, sexuality, and cultural
identities in bold ways that emphasize the shifting beliefs and
cultural practices of contemporary times. Contributors come from a
wide range of fields religious studies, art history, literature,
and anthropology and focus on the central concern of how different
religious communities explore issues of race, gender, and sexuality
through religious practice and discourse. The volume adds the
voices of religious practitioners and artists to those of scholars
to engage in conversations about how Latino/a and African diaspora
religions respond creatively to a history of colonization."
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