Folklore
Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. These include oral traditions such as tales, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging from traditional building styles to handmade toys common to the group. Folklore also includes customary lore, the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas and weddings, folk dances and initiation rites. Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact. Just as essential as the form, folklore also encompasses the transmission of these artifacts …
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DDN: Dundurn Press · 5 November 2024 English
“A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability.” — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods AloneA …
Urquhart, “Making Room for Disability: Mining Folklore and Fairytales,” at the 2020 Wild Writers Literary …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English
“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …
effectively silenced from sharing their stories and folklore. In my own attempts to learn Japanese, I discovered …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …
is episodic as Gaspé engages the registers of folklore and legend in describing the main characters’ …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
popular culture – in fiction, visual art, and folklore – is their status as remnants, the lasting traces …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 September 2024 English
of Absinthe explores how this mythologizing led to the creation and fabrication of a vast modern folklore while key historical events, crucial to understanding the story of absinthe, have been neglected …
creation, and fabrication, of all kinds of modern folklore, much of it repeated with a growing plethora …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 11 September 2024 English
The RSC and its Academies ensure that selection committees are populated in a manner that reflects the diversity of the relevant scholarly community, and the spread of disciplines within the …
Classics/Humanities ➢ Economics ➢ Creative Writing ➢ Education ➢ Folklore/Ethnology ➢ Geography ➢ History ➢ Industrial Relations …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 11 September 2024 English
The RSC and its Academies ensure that selection committees are populated in a manner that reflects the diversity of the relevant scholarly community, and the spread of disciplines within the …
Classics/Humanities ➢ Economics ➢ Creative Writing ➢ Education ➢ Folklore/Ethnology ➢ Geography ➢ History ➢ Industrial Relations …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with …
(1983), 9, 21–3. 9 “The ‘Common Voice’: History, Folklore and Oral Tradition in Early Modern England,” Past …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English
Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Half-Light offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe.
retellings of those same episodes. Star Trek was folklore for the 1970s, fables and stories that moved from …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 13 August 2024
For the past 20 years, the Symons Medal is presented annually by the Confederation Centre of the Arts to honour persons who have made an exceptional and outstanding contribution to …
Performing Arts, Educational Institutions, Traditions, Folklore and the Literary Arts.” the Confederation Centre … établissements d’enseignement, les traditions, le folklore et les arts littéraires ». Elle conclut en notant …
