FOLK 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Grand Banks Of Newfoundland, Complex Number, Memorial University Of Newfoundland
8 Feb 2017
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Anthropologist robert redfield"s notions of the little community have also influenced folklorists" ideas about the folk. In the 1950s redfield contrasted the folk or little community, which he described as small, isolated, nonliterate, and homogeneous, with a strong sense of group solidarity with modern, urban populations. A little community is one whose boundaries are distinctive and clear even to the outsider. Activities in the little community are much the same for those people of corresponding age and sex, and the careers of one generation follow those of the last. Parts of this self sufficient community are closely interdependent. Relationships are face-to-face, with family playing a central role. Scholars now regard redfield"s model as an ideal construct; not all the characteristics he lists might be found in one place and, some of the qualities. Sometimes nineteenth century communities in newfoundland, unconnected by roads. However, someone who feels alone may also describe themselves as being isolated.
