FOLK 1000 Lecture 12: Chapter 4 Overview and Approaches
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Learning objectives: to describe historical and contemporary approaches to the study of folklore: historical- geographical method; structuralism; context and performance; functionalism; poststructural, to identify the contributions of feminist folklorists, to identify the characteristics of feminist coding. Forms of implicit coding (appropriation, juxtaposition, distraction, indirection, trivialization, incompetence) Later, lord raglan pursued the myth-ritual theory in his book, the. Since he believed that peasants were incapable of inventing anything imaginative & that they were uninterested in history, raglan reasoned that myth must not be regarded as either narrative or history. He argued that religious ritual from another time period was the source of all myths & that myths preceded all other folklore (dance, music, painting, Efforts of jacob & wilhelm grimm, edward tylor, & others paved the way for a systematic study, known as the historical-geographical method, comparative analysis, or the finnish method (in reference to the nineteenth century finns who developed it)