Pub Date : 2021-03-04DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.58.1.01
Solimar Otero
Rather than reifying an idea of a "core culture" that can be borrowed or stolen, Jackson prefers to look at how talk about cultural appropriation in the academy, media, and the arts reflects central concerns about cultural advocacy and the power of representation Putting cultural appropriation alongside terms like diffusion, acculturation, assimilation, heritage, and cultural property, Jackson also gives us a deep historical and academic contextualization of the term [ ]Gary Dunham, the Director of Indiana University Press, offered essential support for our Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology book series and the journal during this time of transition
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Pub Date : 2021-03-04DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.58.1.03
Greg Kelley
ABSTRACT:Folklorists have much to learn from Shakespeare's protoethnographic handling of the storytellers and storytelling he portrays in his plays. One case in point is Othello in which our title protagonist disclaims an aptitude for oratory ("Rude I am in my speech, / And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace" [1.3.96–97]), a common disclaimer to performance, yet Othello's subsequent storytelling betrays that he is in fact a skilled narrator who recounts personal experience with rhetorical prowess and expressive style. Furthermore, despite being an outsider in Venice, Othello enjoys an elevated station due in part to his artful narrative building. We witness the depreciation of his status as a master narrator, however, when Iago takes over the storytelling ethos of the play with whispers, innuendo, and veiled aspersions. Once Iago's deceptions fully bloom, there is, in the end, no accommodation for Othello's lofty personal narratives. Tracking both how Othello uses personal narrative to construct and present a coherent self, and how Iago deploys equally virtuosic verbal skill to dissolve Othello's persona and narrative authority, reminds us of the fictive nature of narrative, its variable power to build and destroy, and the competition inherent in the discursive construction of social realities.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-14DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.57.3.03
N. Young
Abstract:Qualitative, ethnographic research methods are rooted in relational contacts within social networks. Such contemporary social networks are being facilitated by digital devices and the related applications designed for interpersonal connection and communication. Online games have also emerged as a result of the proliferation of these digital technologies. Pokémon GO is one such game that relies on networking and geographical/spatial exploration. Gameplay brings people together into both physical and virtual spaces, thus forming expanding networks. Further, Pokémon GO rewards social and gaming competencies while cutting across networks based on other, more typical affinities and identities. Based on my recent experiences, I contend that activities such as playing Pokémon GO, which mediate virtual and physical spaces, are shaping ethnographic encounters and fieldwork research. This article explores how handheld digital technology mediates relationships and contacts, thus facilitating folkloristic and anthropological research methods and data collection in the field.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-14DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.57.3.04
M. Mirzeler
Abstract:This interview with Robert Cancel focuses on folklore studies of Africa since the 1970s. The interview indicates that the study of African oral tradition in the 1970s and early eighties revolved around a type of structuralism that eventually became known as performance theory, which was inspired by theories of cinema coming out of the French New Wave and the American new critics. Yet, African folklore studies remained firmly grounded in the contributions of Continental Folklorists, the Finnish Folklore Fellows, and the motif-tale-type theory as well as Russian formalism.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-14DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.57.3.01
Behrang Nikaeen, Anna Oldfield
Abstract:This article examines how changes in methods of transmission are enhancing a tendency toward musical change in the Azerbaijani ashiq genre as it is performed in the Republic of Azerbaijan and northern Iran. Based on fieldwork in both of these regions, the authors have observed the ashiq genre in flux, shifting from an essentially narrative bardic genre to an essentially musical genre. Although many factors influence this change, this study focuses on how changing methods of transmission are impacting this change. Although the Republic of Azerbaijan and northern Iran are different contexts, the processes are similar: as the genre has changed from being taught in a master-apprentice model to music lessons and self-teaching, many of the skills specific to bardic dastan (epic) recitation are not being transmitted to younger ashiqs. Instead, musical skills that encourage virtuoso performance are being transmitted and are popular with contemporary audiences. This paper seeks to explore and contextualize this change from bardic to musical values within discussions of transmission and musical change in the disciplines of folklore and ethnomusicology.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-14DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.57.3.02
Deon Liebenberg
Abstract:Amerindian myths dealing with the related themes of incest, eclipse, and the origin of the moon's spots reveal glimpses of an elaborate cosmological system, widespread across the Americas, that presents nature in terms of darkness, chaos, corruption, and mortality—in opposition to culture, which is identified with light, order, immortality, and the sacred. This opposition takes diverse manifestations and the mediation of these opposites is achieved, in both myth and ritual, in complex ways. This article uses a comparative approach to analyze myths and motifs documented by Claude Lévi-Strauss. The notorious abuse of comparative mythology in the past to vindicate colonialist and racist agendas has cast a dark shadow over this discipline. Instead of reducing the material to generalized functions of the mind or of human society, the ideas expressed are treated as manifestations of an intellectual tradition. Starting with the structural links that Lévi-Strauss makes between a large body of Amerindian myths, this article will reveal the richness and intellectual depth with which the relevant mythic ideas are elaborated in different cultures. The variations of an idea or motif are approached with the understanding that they are manifestations of a dynamic process of tradition and creation.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-10DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.57.2.02
M. Jones
Abstract:This article focuses on the interrelationship of eating and politicking mainly among candidates running for the U.S. presidency in 2016. Food in politicians' campaigns has received increasing attention in the mass media. My analysis of this material uncovers customs, beliefs, and other traditions; it provides answers to questions about why "retail politics" at fairs and local eateries is popular, what culinary choices might reveal about candidates' personalities and values, and how those running for office use and abuse food and eating. Topics of gender, gaffes, insults, body image, and purveyors naming foods to honor or demean contenders are also explored. Much of the study concerns Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald J. Trump, the finalists in the 2016 presidential race. This essay contributes to the burgeoning field of foodways study generally and specifically to the politics and symbolic nature of alimentation among aspiring office holders.
摘要:本文主要关注2016年美国总统候选人饮食与政治的相互关系。政治家竞选中的食物问题越来越受到大众媒体的关注。我对这些材料的分析揭示了习俗、信仰和其他传统;它提供了一些问题的答案，比如为什么“零售政治”在集市和当地餐馆很受欢迎，选择什么样的烹饪可能揭示候选人的个性和价值观，以及那些竞选公职的人如何使用和滥用食物和饮食。还探讨了性别、失态、侮辱、身体形象以及供应商命名食物以表彰或贬低竞争者的话题。这项研究的大部分内容与2016年总统大选的决赛选手希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿(Hillary Rodham Clinton)和唐纳德·j·特朗普(Donald J. Trump)有关。这篇文章为食品研究的新兴领域做出了贡献，特别是对有抱负的办公室持有人中营养的政治和象征性质。
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