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The Folklorist in the Marketplace: Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics

The Folklorist in the Marketplace: Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics

Mullins, Willow G.
Batra-Wells, Puja

Paperback

Mythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 1607327848
ISBN13: 9781607327844
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: Nov 8 2019
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Folklorist in the Marketplace brings together voices from multiple disciplines to consider how economics shape-and are shaped by-folk groups and academic disciplines. The authors ask how folk and folklorists can productively comment on the economic structures they inhabit.

As trade, technology, and geopolitics have led to a rapid increase in the global spread of cultural products like media, knowledge, objects, and folkways, there has been a concomitant rise in fear and anxiety about globalization's dark other side-economic nativism, neocolonialism, cultural appropriation, and loss. Culture has become a resource and a currency in the global marketplace. This movement of people and forms necessitates a new textual consideration of how folklore and economics interweave. In The Folklorist in the Marketplace, contributors explore how the marketplace and folklore have always been integrally linked and what that means at this cultural and economic moment.

Covering a variety of topics, from creel boats to the history of a commune that makes hammocks, The Folklorist in the Marketplace goes far beyond the well-trod examinations of material culture to look closely at the historical and contemporary intersections of these two disciplines and to provoke cross-disciplinary conversation and collaboration.


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