Research Catalog

Title

Tradition in the twenty-first century : locating the role of the past in the present / edited by Trevor J. Blank and Robert Glenn Howard.

Publication

• Logan : Utah State University Press, an imprint of University Press of Colorado, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

Blank, Trevor J.

Description

225 pages : illustration; 23 cm

Summary

"In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a century, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the conceptual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern era, expanded means of communication, research, and travel, along with globalized cultural and economic interdependence, have complicated these pursuits. Tradition is thoroughly embedded in both modern life and at the center of folklore studies, and a modern understanding of tradition cannot be fully realized without a thoughtful consideration of the past's role in shaping the present. Emphasizing how tradition adapts, survives, thrives, and either mutates or remains stable in today's modern world, the contributors pay specific attention to how traditions now resist or expedite dissemination and adoption by individuals and communities. This complex and intimate portrayal of tradition in the twenty-first century offers a comprehensive overview of the folkloristic and popular conceptualizations of tradition from the past to the present and presents a thoughtful assessment and projection of how "tradition" will fare in years to come."--Publisher's description.

Subjects

• Semiotics and folk literature
• Communication in folklore
• Oral tradition
• Tradition (Philosophy)
• Folklore

Genre/Form

Folklore.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Living traditions in a modern world / Robert Glenn Howard and Trevor J. Blank -- Thinking through tradition / Elliott Oring -- Critical folklore studies and the revaluation of tradition / Stephen Olbrys Gencarella -- Vernacular authority: critically engaging "tradition" / Robert Glenn Howard -- Asserting tradition: rhetoric of tradition and the defense of Chief Illiniwek / Casey R. Schmitt -- Curation and tradition on Web 2.0 / Merrill Kaplan -- Trajectories of tradition: following tradition into a new epoch of human culture / Tok Thompson -- And the greatest of these is tradition: the folklorist's toolbox in the twenty-first century / Lynne S. McNeill -- The "handiness" of tradition / Simon J. Bronner.

ISBN

• 9780874218992
• 0874218993
• 9780874219005 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2013009390
• 40022472387

OCLC

• ocn841516050
• 841516050
• SCSB-1751375

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library