Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2023.2175972
Saša Babič, Piret Voolaid
Abstract This article explores Estonian and Slovenian proverbs related to alcohol and drinking with the aim of interpreting these proverbs in their broader sociocultural context and analysing the controversies embedded in proverbs on this topic. Considering that alcohol is not consumed in the same form everywhere, the article examines Slovenian material as representative of the geographical region of Southern Europe and the Slavic language group, and Estonian material as representative of the geographical region of Northern Europe and the Finno-Ugric language group. The units encompassed by the research contain the following words: wine, beer, spirits (vodka), drunk, and drinking. We analyse how proverbs—as culturally metaphorical units often considered the cornerstone of national identity and a compass of ethnic morals—fit into this ethnic pretext. We focus on three different aspects: those regarded as specific to national culture; gender and family (gender inequality, drinking alcohol as a symbol of masculinity); and the ambivalence surrounding drinking.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2023.2179227
Anastasiya Fiadotava
Abstract This article discusses humorous memes dedicated to climate change activist Greta Thunberg. The analysis of the 264 memes illustrates that Thunberg’s environmental agenda is not central among the memes’ topics. Many memes use the catchy phrases in Thunberg’s speeches, recontextualizing them to achieve humorous effects. While some memes aim at ridiculing Thunberg personally, others use her image metaphorically. Memes abound in intertextual references, drawing parallels between Thunberg and characters of films, cartoons, and other internet memes. By embracing textual and visual aspects of Greta Thunberg memes, and the context of their creation, the article reflects on the interrelation between the content of memes and the social facts that inspired them. The focus is on the discrepancy between the original ideas of celebrities and the meanings reflected in celebrity memes. The analysis demonstrates that celebrity memes can bear various degrees of connection to the ideas of the people that they feature.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2023.2210432
Simon J. Bronner
Dan Ben-Amos, a giant of folkloristics as an international academic discipline, died on 26 March 2023 at the age of eighty-eight. Despite his advancing age and illness, he was actively teaching, writing, and working at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) weeks before his death. In fact, I talked to him in the hospital days before he died and he dispensed instructions to me of projects he wanted my help to finish, along with his boast that he would be back in the classroom. When I replied that he needed to concentrate on his health, he recited in Hebrew the proverb, ‘From your mouth to God’s ear’. Over his long career, Dan Ben-Amos established himself as a leader in a number of folkloristic fields: narrative, humour, proverb, historiography, African studies, and Jewish studies. He was instrumental in the performance studies movement in folkloristics arising during the 1960s and his name is inexorably linked to the keyword of ‘context’. Every student of folklore knows his foundational 1971 essay ‘Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context’ in which he famously declared, ‘folklore is artistic communication in small groups’. According to Dan, the scholarly analysis of context is at its core about the functioning of society. Nonetheless, as a scholar of literature he appreciated and studied texts, and annotated them masterfully, as evidenced in his monumental tomes that formed the Folktales of the Jews series (2006, 2007, 2011). He privately shared with me that this series, of which he published three of the projected five volumes, each topping a thousand pages, would be his parting scholarly gift. Dan’s book of ground-breaking essays in the performance turn of folkloristics, Folklore in Context (1982), contains headings for research directions that he pursued throughout his career. Understandably leading the list is ‘Context’, followed by ‘Genre’, ‘Jewish Humor’, and ‘Folklore in Africa’. I could add to this list expertise he shared in publications and presentations on European folktale, structuralism, collective memory, folk speech, religion, translation and textualization, motif analysis and classification, history of folklore studies and the relationship of history to folklore, Jewish literature and Biblical studies, and psychological and sociolinguistic approaches. Towards the end of his career, Dan’s theoretical contributions beyond performance were gathered by Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring in Folklore Concepts: Histories and Critiques (2020) for Indiana University Press.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2023.2205777
Joanna Bocheńska, Farangis Ghaderi
Abstract Folklore-collecting initiatives in Turkey and Iran have become increasingly popular over the past decade. In this article we present a historical overview of folklore-collecting practices and focus on more recent developments in this field. While Kurdish folklore has been perceived as a cornerstone of Kurdish national identity and as a source of information on Kurdish history, today’s collectors in Turkey and Iran understand its role in a wider context of language revitalization and indigenous knowledge production. Collecting oral traditions in the Kurdish dialects of Kurmanji, Sorani, and Zazaki is appreciated as a step towards protecting and developing the Kurdish language, which is endangered by language assimilation policies in both countries. Reviving folkloric vocabulary, stories, and traditional knowledge practices such as agricultural teachings, folklore collectors revive and promote indigenous knowledge production, and enrich education and research. Drawing on language revitalization theories and indigenous knowledge production, this article offers insights into unexplored aspects of collecting, archiving, and publishing Kurdish folklore in recent years.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2023.2200279
Katherine Langrish
Abstract This lecture concerns the sometimes underrated power of stories to influence us, an influence that depends upon factors such as how closely a tale adheres to what we consider either possible or desirable. I examine legends, fairy tales, the gruesome urban legends children tell at sleepovers, and those stories handed down in families, communities, and nations which confer a sense of common identity and pride, sometimes at the cost of excluding others. Stories offer wisdom, solace, joy; they may also frighten or alienate. For good or ill they can change our perceptions of ourselves and others, and of the world around us.
{"title":"Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power of Stories","authors":"Katherine Langrish","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2023.2200279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2023.2200279","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This lecture concerns the sometimes underrated power of stories to influence us, an influence that depends upon factors such as how closely a tale adheres to what we consider either possible or desirable. I examine legends, fairy tales, the gruesome urban legends children tell at sleepovers, and those stories handed down in families, communities, and nations which confer a sense of common identity and pride, sometimes at the cost of excluding others. Stories offer wisdom, solace, joy; they may also frighten or alienate. For good or ill they can change our perceptions of ourselves and others, and of the world around us.","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":"15 1","pages":"261 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78445539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2023.2205281
Juliette Wood
{"title":"<b>A Cultural History of Fairy Tales</b>","authors":"Juliette Wood","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2023.2205281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2023.2205281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136355865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2023.2216578
Joann Conrad
{"title":"Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe","authors":"Joann Conrad","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2023.2216578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2023.2216578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74243981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2023.2219169
F. Vaz da Silva
{"title":"Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe","authors":"F. Vaz da Silva","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2023.2219169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2023.2219169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88541376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2023.2205278
Ethan Doyle White
{"title":"Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape","authors":"Ethan Doyle White","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2023.2205278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2023.2205278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79948217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2023.2213945
Ceri Houlbrook
{"title":"The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City.","authors":"Ceri Houlbrook","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2023.2213945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2023.2213945","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77119809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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