Locating Irish Folklore
Subtitle: Tradition, Modernity, Identity
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781859181683
Subjects: Cultural studies; Folklore; Social Science; Sociology; Ireland; Europe - Ireland; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology; Folklore & Mythology
First sentence: 'Folklore' is both subject matter and critical discourse, amateur enthusiasm and academic discipline, residual agrarian culture and the popular urban culture of the present; it is both conservative anti-modernist and radical counter-culture, the sphere of dilettantish provincial intellectuals and of committed nation-builders, transmitted by word of mouth in intimate settings and negotiated electronically in the public domain.