Concept Work : constructing frameworks for folklore studies / Jason Baird Jackson.
| Author/creator | Jackson, Jason Baird, 1969- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2025] |
| Description | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | JSTOR |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Concept Work in Folklore Studies -- 1. A Story of Colonialism and Its Lessons -- 2. Innovation, Habitus, and Heritage -- 3. On Cultural Appropriation -- 4. Toward Wider Framings: World-Systems Analysis and Folklore Studies -- 5. Teaching Concepts in Folklore Studies. |
| Abstract | Folklorists study the richness of customary forms of cultural expression and the everyday social worlds in which all people interact and communicate. They use a range of methods--literary, ethnographic, philological, visual, historical, comparative, artifactual--to engage with and learn from diverse peoples, but they also rely on a stock of key concepts that have grown up within their discipline, including tradition, performance, genre, text, context, community, and identity. But folklorists and their interlocutors live in an ever-changing world in which making sense of new social dynamics requires additional foundational concepts. In Concept Work, folklorist and ethnologist Jason Baird Jackson illustrates scholarly concept work in folklore studies through fresh accounts of four concepts that are significant to the field but not yet richly explored by its practitioners--colonization, cultural heritage, cultural appropriation, and the place of folklore and folklore studies within the capitalist world system. Jackson closes the volume with a reflection on teaching and doing concept work with his students-turned-colleagues. Concept Work is an essential introduction to the current work being done within folklore studies for teachers and students alike. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 15, 2025). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Jackson, Jason Baird Concept Work Bloomington : Indiana University Press,c2025 9780253074317 |
| ISBN | 9780253074324 electronic book |
| ISBN | 0253074320 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9780253074331 electronic book |
| ISBN | 0253074339 electronic book |
| Stock number | 22573/cats32375094 JSTOR |
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