This paper highlights the phenomenon of folk music in terms a medium cultural memory. The imaginaires about it are based on Slavic and myth which shaped forms expressing folklore over past two centuries. It is an attempt to switch discussion from whether able have positive influence traditional preservation, into sphere identitiy issue. Folk does not necessarily evoke established Polish identit...

This essay in the "anthropology of science" is about how cognition constrains culture in producing science. The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence issues from the very same domain-specific cognitive universals that provide the historical backbone of systematic biology. Humans everywhere think about plants and animals in highly structured ways. People have similar folk-biological...

The Sami folk high school started in 1942 as a school for young Sami that needed more education that the Swedish folk school or nomadic school offered its pupils. The school was managed by the Swedish mission society, an organization within the Swedish church. The school was successful but struggled with financial problems. The result was that a foundation with Sami representation managed the s...