Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTying folklore to larger trends in Western cultural thought, leaving behind narrow concerns with genre or fossilized expressive forms, Humble Theory showcases the potential of folkloristics to contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary conversations about culture.
* Journal of Folklore Research *
Humble Theory is a big book. From a small scholarly field, it announces the most substantial, far-seeing insights into the world's social life. By writing it, Noyes becomes the kind of public intellectual the United States needs.
* Journal of American Folklore *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: The Work of Folklore Studies
1. Humble Theory
2. Group
3. The Social Base of Folklore
4. Tradition: Three Traditions
5. Aesthetic is the Opposite of Anaesthetic: On Tradition and Attention
Part II. Histories and Economies of Tradition
6. Voice in the Provinces: Submission, Recognition, and the Birth of Heritage
7. The Work of Redemption: Folk Voice in the Myth of Industrial Development
8. Festival Pasts and Futures in Catalonia
9. Hardscrabble Academies: Toward a Social Economy of Vernacular Invention
10. Cultural Warming? Brazil in Berlin
11. Fairy-Tale Economics: Scarcity, Risk, Choice
Part III. Slogan-Concepts and Cultural Regimes
12. On Sociocultural Categories
13. The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership
14. Heritage, Legacy, Zombie: How to Bury the Undead Past
15. Compromised Concepts in Rising Waters: Making the Folk Resilient
Index
