Sources: American Folk Art: A Regional Reference

A Comparative S‌tudy on Pop, Elite and Folk Art

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

American folk medicine. A symposium

American folk medicine

The Revolutionary period did (after some hesitation by those who dreamed of a society without hospitals) bring about the conversion of the main houses of Christian care for the sick poor in the large urban centres (Hotels-Dieu, Charite's, and Hopitaux Ge'neraux) to medical institutions concerned with the study and treatment of disease. The process of medicalization of Paris hospitals has been w...

Pixel Patchwork: a Digital Folk Art?

This paper is about a novel form of grassroots playful performance on the Internet. In a channel (chatroom) called “rainbow” on IRC (Internet Relay Chat), participants communicate in real time mainly via images created from letters and other computer keyboard symbols. Images are “tokens for interaction,” both “art” and “communication.” The paper reports on six years of participant observation o...

Folk Ideas About Reference and Specific Indefinites

Informal discourse about specific indefinites often employs ideas such as ‘the individual the speaker had in mind’. Although this kind of discourse most often seems to proceed coherently, many semanticists are sceptical about theoretical or formal accounts employing these notions. In this paper, we argue that folk ideas about reference are central to semantics, figuring in the truth conditions ...