Week 2: Anthropology 11--Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Outline for:

Richard Handler and Jocelyn Linnekin, Tradition, Genuine or Spurious?

Barre Toelken, Folklore and Cultural Worldview

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Professor John Wolford
Department of Anthropology
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Email: wolfordj@msx.umsl.edu


 
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Links to outside web pages: [Wolford's A11 Web Page] [My Gateway Page] [Reserves Page]
 
 

Week 2: Tradition (Handler & Linnekin) & Worldview (Toelken): Outline of the Articles

Tradition, Genuine of Spurious, by Handler & Linnekin
Etymology of tradition

Reification

Two strains of people's understanding of what tradition means

Popular understanding of tradition

Academic, or analytical understanding of tradition


Twin Laws of Folklore, as applied to tradition

People's traditional behavior

active bearers of tradition

passive beareres of tradition

Folklore and Cultural Worldview, by Barre Toelken
Nature of worldview

European American Worldview

The Primal Context

Individual Orientation

Individual Deportment

Cultural Deportment

Cultural Philosophy and Folklore

Navajo Worldview
The Primal Context

Individual and Cultural Orientation

Individual and Cultural Deportment

Cultural Art and Artifact
 

Created: January 27 2002
previous revision: January 27, 2002
Last revised: January 27, 2002