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Title: HUMBLE THEORY
FOLKLORE'S GRASP ON SOCIAL LIFE
By: Dorothy Noyes
Format: Book

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ISBN 10: 0253023149
ISBN 13: 9780253023148
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Publisher: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 3 October, 2016
Pages: 470
Synopsis: Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been marginal and precarious, yet folklore studies are foundational and persistent. Long engaged with all that escapes the gaze of grand theory and grand narratives, folklorists have followed the lead of the people whose practices they study. They attend to local economies of meaning; they examine the challenge of making room for maneuver within circumstances one does not control. Incisive and wide ranging, the fifteen essays in this book chronicle the "humble theory" of both folk and folklorist as interacting perspectives on social life in the modern Western world.
Publication: US
Imprint: Indiana University Press
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