ANT 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Study Guide, Contracture, Alan Dundes
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Important up-dates: april 23 essay 5-5, due in class, april 30 paper #2, due on bblearn, may 9 final exam, 12:30-2:30pm. The epic of gilgamesh: joseph campbell"s monomyth. Presentation evaluations: aesthetics, organization, clarify, engagement, relevance, 20 points assigned to each value. Childlore: activities passed on by children to children, theme: wear and repair during transmission, continuity and change, stability and variation, dynamism and conservatism. Inclusivity of the discipline: studied became the studier, the voices are perspectives of the other(marginalized) Challenges for the future: folklore as cultural commentary: the affecting presence, aesthetics, performance, interrogates the status quo. Challenges ii: disciplinary tight chemises: folklore and the disciplines, contractures of ad problems with scientism, privileging of divisions, reification of professionalization, questions (pratt, whose points of view, the effect of artificial categories. Challenges iii: everyday forms of resistance, folklore"s relevance, social realms, political realms, recognize, classical folklore, racist folklore, sexist folklore.
