{"product_id":"humble-theory-folklores-grasp-on-social-life-paperback-softback-9780253023148","title":"Humble Theory; Folklore's Grasp on Social Life (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253023148","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHumble Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFolklore's Grasp on Social Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDorothy Noyes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253023148\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 October 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e470 pages, 4 b\u0026amp;w illus., 13 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.608 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tying folklore to larger trends in Western cultural thought, leaving behind narrow concerns with genre or fossilized expressive forms, \u003ci\u003eHumble Theory\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the potential of folkloristics to contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary conversations about culture.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Folklore Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eHumble Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a big book. From a small scholarly field, it announces the most substantial, far-seeing insights into the world's social life. By writing it, Noyes becomes the kind of public intellectual the United States needs.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Folklore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: The Work of Folklore Studies\u003cbr\u003e 1. Humble Theory\u003cbr\u003e 2. Group\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Social Base of Folklore\u003cbr\u003e 4. Tradition: Three Traditions\u003cbr\u003e 5. Aesthetic is the Opposite of Anaesthetic: On Tradition and Attention\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Histories and Economies of Tradition\u003cbr\u003e 6. Voice in the Provinces: Submission, Recognition, and the Birth of Heritage\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Work of Redemption: Folk Voice in the Myth of Industrial Development\u003cbr\u003e 8. Festival Pasts and Futures in Catalonia\u003cbr\u003e 9. Hardscrabble Academies: Toward a Social Economy of Vernacular Invention\u003cbr\u003e 10. Cultural Warming? Brazil in Berlin\u003cbr\u003e 11. Fairy-Tale Economics: Scarcity, Risk, Choice\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Slogan-Concepts and Cultural Regimes\u003cbr\u003e 12. On Sociocultural Categories\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership\u003cbr\u003e 14. Heritage, Legacy, Zombie: How to Bury the Undead Past\u003cbr\u003e 15. Compromised Concepts in Rising Waters: Making the Folk Resilient\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681773711640,"sku":"9780253023148","price":28.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/humble-theory-folklores-grasp-on-social-life-paperback-softback-9780253023148","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}