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Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture , Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons for the continuing significance of traditions, delving into their social and psychological roles in everyday life, from old-time crafts to folk creativity on the Internet. Challenging prevailing notions of tradition as a relic of the past, Explaining Traditions provides deep insight into the nuances and purposes of living traditions in relation to modernity. Bronner's work forces readers to examine their own traditions and imparts a better understanding of raging controversies over the sustainability of traditions in the modern world.
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A premier scholar of tradition, Bronner (Penn State, Harrisburg) has typically focused on the various nuances emergent from traditions representing intersections of the past with the present (and future), as well as intersections between different traditional groups, cultural modes, and theories (both popular and scholarly). His theoretical grounding represents syntheses--between behavioralism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, semiotics, and praxis theory, among others. In folkloristics, he aligns mostly with Alan Dundes and Michael Owen Jones, evident in his tropes and his approaches. His historic range of topics (and his productivity) is astounding: children, Jewish culture, folklife, arts, architecture, folk history, popular culture, language, sports, games, the Internet, communication, theory--the list goes on and on. An indefatigable researcher and writer, Bronner exhibits his best skills in this book. Always having sought to define and refine the concept of tradition, the author evocatively recapitulates and expands the thrust of his interests and development over the last 35-plus years with this work. The book's chapters cover theory, architecture, craft, children's folklore, language, narrative, storytelling, ethnicity, identity formation, semiotics, sports, and the Internet. Each of the ten chapters--and the introduction--is well worth reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Especially suitable for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, or American studies scholars. J. B. Wolford University of Missouri--St. Louis
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List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Prologue: Beginning with Tradition | p. 1 |
1 Defining Tradition: On the Meaning and Politics of a ôHandyö Concept | p. 13 |
2 Explaining Tradition: On Folk and Folkloristic Logic | p. 63 |
3 Building Tradition: On Control and Authority in Vernacular Architecture | p. 93 |
4 Making Tradition: On Craft in American Consciousness | p. 138 |
5 Adapting Tradition: On Folklore in Human Development | p. 196 |
6 Fading Tradition: On a Dying Language and Lore | p. 248 |
7 Personalizing Tradition: On Storytelling by an African American Father and Son | p. 282 |
8 Symbolizing Tradition: On the Scatology of an Ethnic Identity | p. 319 |
9 Sporting Tradition: On the Praxis of American Football | p. 350 |
10 Virtual Tradition: On the Internet as a Folk System | p. 398 |
Notes | p. 451 |
References | p. 459 |
Index | p. 509 |