Anthropology of folklore

Pre-requisites: No preconditions.

Course objectives: Introducing students to the main folklorist theories, methods and perspectives of research. Realizing the importance of studying folklore as an expressive and symbolic conduit of thought, behavior and assessments that enable understanding of cultural patterns.

Course description: As a collective view of the world, folklore is a reflection of socio-cultural reality, and is manifest through various forms of verbal and non-verbal, verbal and written, individual and collective, artistic or traditional ways of expression in a variety of genres. Folklore can be understood as a form of folk art, folk knowledge and opinions through which collective norms, values, ethical and aesthetic attitude are expressed.

Learning Outcomes: Understanding of their (students) position as an active and dynamic creators / users of folklore communication. Acquiring skills in the analysis of individual prose folklore genres.

Literature/Reading:

• Dragana Antonijević, Antropologija folklora – perspektive istraživanja, Zbornik radova EI SANU 21, 2005. str. 245-251.
• Dragana Antonijević, Socio-folkloristika, u Ogledi iz antropologije i semiotike folklora, Beograd, 2010, str. 25-92.
• Dragana Antonijević, Treći pravac u folkloristici: sociološki pristup G.A. Fajna, EAP 1 (2), 2006, 125-154
• Dragana Antonijević, Okviri proučavanja ličnih i porodičnih priča... EAP 4 (1), 2009, 13-35.
• Alan Dundes, The Anthropologist and the Comparative Method in Folklore, in: Folklore Matters, 1989, 57-82.
• Alan Dundes, Who are the folk? u Interpreting Folklore, Indiana University Press, 1980, 1-19
• Alan Dundes, The American Concept of Folklore, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1966, 226-249.
• Alan Dundes, Defining Identity through Folklore, in: Folklore Matters, 1-39.
• Alan Dundes, The Fabrication of Fakelores, Folklore Matters, UTP,1989,40-56.
• George Schoemaker, Introduction: Basic Concepts of Folkloristics, u The Emergence of Folklore in Everyday Life, G. Schoemaker, ed. 1990, Trickster Press, 1-10.
• R. Jakobson i P. Bogatirjov, Folklor kao naročit oblik stvaralaštva, u Usmena književnost, ed. Maja Bošković-Stulli, Zagreb, 1971, 17-30.
• Eliot Oring, On the Concepts of Folklore, Folk Groups and Folklore Genres, Utah UP, 1986, 1-22.
• Herman Bauzinger, Etnologija, Bgd. 2002, 174 – 196.
• Simon Bronner, Folklore in an Era of Communication, in: American Folklore Studies, 1986, 94-129.
• Gerald Warshaver, Urban Folklore, u Handbook of American Folklore, ed. R. Dorson, IUP, 1986, 162 – 170
• Dan Ben-Amos, Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context, Journal of American Folklor (JAF), 84/331, 1971, 3-15.
• Trudier Harris, Genre, JAF, 108/430, 1995 509-527.
• Vladimir Prop, Morfologija bajke, Beograd, 1982, 26-71, 86-93.
• Nada Milošević-Đorđević, Tragom Vladimira Propa: od bajke do morfologije novele i legendarne priče, u Od bajke do izreke, Beograd, 2000, 23-30.
• Axel Olrik, Epic Laws of Folk Narrative, 129-142; fotokopija.
• Katherine Borland & Jennifer Livesay, Folk Speech, u The Emergence of Folklore in Everyday Life, G. Schoemaker, ed. 1990, Trickster Press, 51-58.
• Linda Kinsey Adams, Folk Narrative, u The Emergence of Folklore in Everyday Life, G. Schoemaker, ed. 1990, Trickster Press, 23-35.
• Cvetan Todorov, Uvod u fantastičnu književnost, Bgd. 1987, 111-143.
• Vesna Trifunović, Bazične tehnike humora po Arturu A. Bergeru, EAP, god.2, sv.2, 2007, 221-248.
• Vesna Trifunović, Šala - jedna (ne)bitna humoristička forma, EAP 6 (2), 2011, 319-332
• Martin Laba, Urban Folklore: A Behavioral Approach Western Folklore, Vol. 38, No. 3. 1979, 158-169.
• Elliott Oring, The Devolutionary Premise: A Definitional Delusion? Western Folklore, Vol. 34, No. 1.1975, 36-44.
• Kim Miller, All in the Family: Family Folklore, Objectivity and Self-Censorship Western Folklore, Vol. 56, No. 3/4. 1997, 331-346.
• Gary Alan Fine, The Manson Family: The Folklore Traditions of a Small Group, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol. 19, No. 1. 1982, pp. 47-60.