Pub Date : 2019-03-08DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.56.1.03
Metin Yüksel
Abstract:This article looks at the works of two well-known minstrels, one Turkish and one Kurdish, during the early nation-building years of Turkey. While the Turkish minstrel Âşık Veysel composed a eulogy on the Turkish Republic and its founder Mustafa Kemal, Dengbêj Reso performed a lament for Sheikh Said and Khalid Beg Cibrî, the two Kurdish leaders of the 1925 Sheikh Said Revolt. Oral traditions can be essential sources for anthropologists, folklorists, and historians in the investigation of political and historical consciousness. Similar to oral poetry in other parts of the world, Turkish and Kurdish oral poetry represent past events in politically charged ways, communicating a range of popular political stances. Rather than providing a peaceful resolution to the conflict between the Turkish Republic and the Kurds in 1925, the two pieces under consideration promote and perpetuate conflict by means of their common and yet contrasting references to the rope by which Sheikh Said was hanged.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-19DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.3.03
mu li
Abstract:This article investigates the personal narratives and other supporting discourses of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Newfoundland, Canada, in order to understand how individuals in this diasporic group use narratives to present their differing and sometimes conflicting senses of Chineseness. The diasporic identity is emergent in the interplay between "traditional" Chinese culture (there) and vernacular experience in Newfoundland (here). This diasporic identity is creolized, multiple, temporal, and fluid, and it is reinforced by new traditions and cultural traits developed in the diaspora.
{"title":"Presenting Diversity and Negotiating Identity: Narratives of the Chinese in Newfoundland","authors":"mu li","doi":"10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.3.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.3.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article investigates the personal narratives and other supporting discourses of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Newfoundland, Canada, in order to understand how individuals in this diasporic group use narratives to present their differing and sometimes conflicting senses of Chineseness. The diasporic identity is emergent in the interplay between \"traditional\" Chinese culture (there) and vernacular experience in Newfoundland (here). This diasporic identity is creolized, multiple, temporal, and fluid, and it is reinforced by new traditions and cultural traits developed in the diaspora.","PeriodicalId":44620,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH","volume":"55 1","pages":"51 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42132650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-19DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.55.3.02
Eija Stark
Abstract:This article focuses on the culturally shared knowledge and understanding regarding family and kin relations held by the rural poor of Finland. The source material consists of the life stories, and poverty narratives within them, of Finns born between 1880 and 1938, seventy-nine texts altogether. Although all the narrators became financially secure by Western standards later in life, childhood poverty left them scarred. A recurrent focus in their life stories is how meager living conditions led to miserable childhoods and adolescences, a situation reinforced by the existing peasant family economic model. Stories that emphasize this situation are called poverty narratives. In this article I point to themes apparent in these narratives: tensions in the nuclear family, the perception of children as burdens, and criticism of extended relatives. Poverty narratives deal with topics, ideas, and evaluations that are relevant to their bearers; this article therefore provides insight into the linguistic competencies, concerns, feelings, and agencies of the individuals.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-19DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.55.3.04
Mary Magoulick
Abstract:Ojibwe/Anishnaabe writer Louise Erdrich embraces the complex, paradoxical, and transformative Trickster character type, whose endurance inspires readers. Each of her Tricksters—Potchikoo, Nanapush, Father Damian—is modern to varying degrees, embodying qualities drawn from Anishinaabeg traditions while speaking volumes to today's audiences. Erdrich echoes her Tricksters' mastery of words, telling stories that reflect a violent history and changing yet hopeful present worlds, stories in which updated Tricksters persist, defiantly mocking even death to delight and puzzle us. Erdrich's loquacious, eloquent survivors teach and heal, even while embracing humor and acting foolish or absurd. They speak with powerful voices to mock, navigate, and explicate both tribal and mainstream culture today. Erdrich allows us to embrace this slippery character, who often provokes anxiety in contemporary scholars and writers, long enough for us to appreciate him/her as neither dead, dangerously off-limits, nor incomprehensible, but rather as a voice of survival in the midst of cultural change, worth attending to today. Erdrich offers us all an enduring character who masters stories, lives boldly in our world, and creatively merges the traditional and the contemporary.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.55.3.01
T. Thurston
Abstract:This article examines the complex processes by which a Tibetan comedy reaches state-sponsored stages in western China's Qinghai Province. By reflecting on my own participation in a Tibetan sketch comedy for a Tibetan-language, provincial version of the Chunjie wanhui, China Central Television's annual New Year's Gala, I examine the Tibetan sketch comedy as a staged vernacular ethnography of a transnational encounter. Juxtaposing Tibetan nomads with characters of Korean and Australian origin, such staged encounters create a productive friction that provides a space for public meditation on politically and culturally sensitive issues central to the negotiation of Tibetanness in the twenty-first century, including cultural preservation and ecological conservation.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.2.05
Nduka Otiono
{"title":"\"The concept of the heroic age as held by scholars is not a very healthy one\": An Interview of Isidore Okpewho by Nduka Otiono","authors":"Nduka Otiono","doi":"10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44620,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH","volume":"55 1","pages":"115 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43036199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.2.01
Sabina Magliocco
Abstract:This essay introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (55–2) dedicated to folklore studies and the "animal turn," a movement among scholars from various disciplines to explore the shifting boundary between human and nonhuman animals and its ethical implications. Building on the pioneering work of folklorist Jay Mechling, the authors use a folkloristic approach to examine the human-animal relationship from the point of view of informal ontologies and knowledge systems as well as the scientific, naturalistic perspective most familiar to scholars. Their aim is to enlarge the purview of folklore studies, taking advantage of its unique position to explore vernacular cosmologies, ontologies, and human-nonhuman relationship models, going as far as expanding the application of notions such as "culture" and "tradition" to the behavior of nonhuman animals. In doing so, it is their hope to encourage folklorists to contribute to the theoretical and scholarly literature on posthumanism and the animal turn.
{"title":"Folklore and the Animal Turn","authors":"Sabina Magliocco","doi":"10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (55–2) dedicated to folklore studies and the \"animal turn,\" a movement among scholars from various disciplines to explore the shifting boundary between human and nonhuman animals and its ethical implications. Building on the pioneering work of folklorist Jay Mechling, the authors use a folkloristic approach to examine the human-animal relationship from the point of view of informal ontologies and knowledge systems as well as the scientific, naturalistic perspective most familiar to scholars. Their aim is to enlarge the purview of folklore studies, taking advantage of its unique position to explore vernacular cosmologies, ontologies, and human-nonhuman relationship models, going as far as expanding the application of notions such as \"culture\" and \"tradition\" to the behavior of nonhuman animals. In doing so, it is their hope to encourage folklorists to contribute to the theoretical and scholarly literature on posthumanism and the animal turn.","PeriodicalId":44620,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH","volume":"55 1","pages":"1 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41442052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.2.02
C. Ware
Abstract:This fieldwork-based study explores veterinary professionals' vernacular beliefs about animal patients as an important form of occupational folklore. Veterinary workers' interactions with nonhuman animals through touch, voice, and other senses offer an embodied understanding of animals as distinctive, sentient, and perhaps inspirited individuals. These beliefs often challenge scientific and religious orthodoxy, and are gradually changing the ways in which animal medicine is taught and practiced. Because veterinarians today are widely recognized as experts on, and mediators of, human-animal relationships, their beliefs have the potential to reshape wider cultural perceptions of animals.
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