Oral Tradition and Folkloristics

The Forager Oral Tradition and the Evolution of Prolonged Juvenility

The foraging niche is characterized by the exploitation of nutrient-rich resources using complex extraction techniques that take a long time to acquire. This costly period of development is supported by intensive parental investment. Although human life history theory tends to characterize this investment in terms of food and care, ethnographic research on foraging skill transmission suggests t...

Narrative Tradition In Early Greek Oral Poetry And Vase-Painting

Archaic Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BC exhibits visual narrative phenomena that are very similar to the verbal narrative patterns of traditional, orally composed poetry: in the poetry these are the familiar formulaic phrases and themes analyzed by Milman Parry and the ensuing train of oral theorists; in the art they take the form of repetitious iconography and recurrent composit...

On the Final [s] in "Folkloristics"

In a recent issue of the Journal of American Folklore Bruce Jackson pleads with folklorists to rid themselves of term "folkloristics" ( Jackson 1985). Toward the conclusion of his statement he addresses all of us passionately: "Let's abandon this neologism with its pompous and misleading suffixes, this clumsy construct that does not propel us into the modern age but instead makes us appear slig...

Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

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Moderation between tradition tradition and modernism the experience of Isfahan`s Jooybareh neighborhood