Society, Oral Tradition and Folk Literature

Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota

The Jewish Tradition and Civil Society

There is no term for, much less a theory of, civil society in classical Jewish texts. Although the Jewish viewpoint on any given subject is no longer identical with the classical rabbinic viewpoint, until modernity, the latter provided the intellectual framework in which all Jewish thought was set. Any understanding of how Judaism views a topic must begin with the rabbinic tradition. This is st...

Tradition & Discovery The Polanyi Society Periodical

Preface...................................................................................................................................2 News and Notes.....................................................................................................................3 2011 Polanyi Society Annual Meeting Program ...............................................................5 Polanyi Society...

The Analysis of Fatalism and Rationality in Oral Literature (Case of Study: Kurdish Oral Literature)

Fatalism and Rationality are two separate valuable attributes. In Rationalism and rationality, the active and creative role of human is emphasized, meaning ignorance aversion, imagination aversion, illusion removal and superstition removal. This concept is the opposite of the concept of fatalism in which human has the minimum activity and the emphasis is very much on the role of trans-physics i...

Longings and belongings: Indian American youth identity, folk dance competitions, and the construction of ‘tradition’

This article examines the development of the ‘cultural competition’ as a site for the production of multiple identities by Indian American youths on American college campuses. Through the examination of two categories of folk dance competitions (bhangra and raas-garba) at a private university in Washington, DC, we argue that these competitions appear to resist hybridity and produce rhetoric tha...