The electives such as Yakshagana Appreciation,
Folkloristics, Society, History and Polity, Gandhian Studies, Peace Studies etc, may be offered at different levels in the programme.
Nonetheless, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Indonesian or Balinese
folkloristics. The extensive databases in both appendices provide an essential reference for story-telling research in insular Southeast Asia.
Contributors are scholars working in humanities and humanistic social science disciplines like
folkloristics, anthropology, sociology, communications, American studies, and cultural studies in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Israel.
Through ethnographic fieldwork and research in
folkloristics, the author reveals that the Aguda identify strongly with their Afro-Cuban roots in contemporary times, and thus, their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to Cuban, and back again, in a manner that illustrates the truly cyclical nature of transnational Atlantic community affiliation.
To some extent, the increasing centrality of everyday practice in cultural scholarship has seemingly come at the expense of other theoretical orientations, most especially the theories of performance which have long been a mainstay in American
folkloristics. Billy Ehn, Orvar Lofgreen, and Richard Wilk, for example, have recently articulated a clear vision along these lines for cultural research on "everyday life":
Lokvartavigyan ra loksahitya (
Folkloristics and folk literature).
Within the fields of
folkloristics and literary studies, the fairy tale has been notoriously difficult to pin down (see Maria Tatar's The Classic Fairy Tales [1999] and Stith Thompson's The Folktale [1977] for prominent perspectives).
Well-written and researched, the book will interest a variety of readers, such as cultural historians, policy makers, museum professionals, and scholars in ethnology, heritage, and
folkloristics. Editors are Aronsson (cultural heritage and the uses of history, Linkoping U., Sweden) and Graden (chief curator, Nordic Heritage Museum, Washington, and Scandinavian studies, U.
The articles link scientific botany to political issues like imperialism, social networking, and a culturally influenced taxonomy; ethnobotany to
folkloristics and education; scientific botanical practice to nature writing and leisure walks through the landscape; and economic and religious practices to the function of plant species.
Wolfram was a leading figure in the Nazification of Reich German
folkloristics in 1938 -45, and after the war a disturbing example of the failure of, especially, the Austrian scholarly folklore community to come to terms with its enthusiastic involvement in National Socialism.
This is a small collection of articles initiated by the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory and dedicated to the study of some selected aspects of the culture of death in archaeology,
folkloristics, and media studies.