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Explaining traditions folk behavior in modern culture

Title: Explaining traditions [electronic resource] : folk behavior in modern culture / Simon J. Bronner.
Author: Bronner, Simon J.
Publication: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2011.

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1 online resource (xiii, 530 p.) : ill.

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Explaining traditions (Online)

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Explaining traditions (Online)

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-508) and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Defining tradition: on the meaning and politics of a "handy" concept -- Explaining tradition: on folk and folkloristic logic -- Building tradition: on control and authority in vernacular architecture -- Making tradition: on craft in American consciousness -- Adapting tradition: on folklore in human development -- Fading tradition: on a dying language and lore -- Personalizing tradition: on storytelling by an African American father and son -- Symbolizing tradition: on the scatology of an ethnic identity -- Sporting tradition: on the praxis of American football -- Virtual tradition: on the Internet as a folk system.

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