Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "folklore"
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Proverbial Economies: How an Understanding of Some Linguistic and Social Features of Common Sense Can Throw Light on More Prestigious Bodies of Knowledge, Science for Example
(Sage Publications, 2001)An evaluative contrast between learned expertise and lay knowledge is a pervasive and longstanding feature of modern culture. Occasionally, the learned have pointed to folkish proverbs to illustrate the inadequacies of ... -
Vodú Chic: Haitian Religion and the Folkloric Imaginary in Socialist Cuba
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)During the first three decades of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of Haitian agricultural laborers arrived in Cuba seeking employment in the expanding sugar industry. Historically, Haitian cane cutters were ...