A Handbook of Philippine FolkloreUP Press, 2006 - 481 Seiten The voluminous book provides a range of international theories and methodologies in analytical folklore investigations, and a classification scheme based on genre is offered as the system of taxonomy for Philippine traditional materials. Lopez counts on the regional folklorists to refine the classification according to the texts of their respective areas. The different genres, too, are explained and examined in another part of Lopez's study. The reader will definitely find interesting and useful, the illustrative examples for each genre. |
Inhalt
| 1 | |
| 30 | |
| 54 | |
Philippine Folklore Classified | 87 |
Verbal Folklore Poklor na Berbal | 105 |
Social Folk Custom Kaugaliang Sosyal | 167 |
Performing Folk Arts Katutubong Sining | 231 |
Chapter VIII Material Folklore Poklor na Materyal | 308 |
Findings and Conclusions | 409 |
Abbreviations Used | 415 |
Appendix | 453 |
Index | 469 |
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Alan Dundes American Folklore anthropologists Aquino Asian bamboo bamboo poles basic belief Cabanatuan City Christian Filipinos church classification collection concept cooked costume customs dancers definition Dorson drama dress elements English epic Eugenio example festival fieldwork fiesta Filipino folklorists folk art folk dance folklore form folklore materials folklore studies folklorists folktale function genre gesture Ifugao Igorot Ilocos Ilokano Jose Katutubong legends lore lowland Christian Luzon Manila Manuel Maranao meal meaning meryenda Mindanao motifs Muslim Filipinos myth narratives native nipa Nueva Ecija oral Pangasinan pattern performance Philippine culture Philippine folk dances Philippine Folklore Society Philippine folkloristics Philippine society play players popular proverb Province Quezon City regional religious Reyes rice Richard Dorson riddle ritual Rizal scholars social songs Source Spaniards Spanish speech stories structural Sulu superstitions Tagalog Taglish Tausug term theory tinikling traditional Translation University Visayan wear Western women word
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Seite 45 - folk" can refer to any group of people whatsoever who share at least one common factor. It does not matter what the linking factor is — it could be a common occupation, language or religion — but what is important is that a group formed for whatever reason will have some traditions which it calls its own.
Seite 41 - Properly speaking, folklore is only concerned with the legends, customs, beliefs, of the Folk, of the people, of the classes which have least been altered by education, which have shared least in progress.
Seite 131 - A riddle is a traditional verbal expression which contains one or more descriptive elements, a pair of which may be in opposition; the referent of the elements is to be guessed" (Georges and Dundes 1963:113).
Seite 74 - A treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is not an end in itself but only a means to an end.
Seite 141 - Legends are prose narratives which, like myths, are regarded as true by the narrator and his audience, but they are set in a period considered less remote, when the world was much as it is today.
Seite 117 - The definition of a Proverb is too difficult to repay the undertaking; and should we fortunately combine in a single definition all the essential elements and give each the proper emphasis, we should not even then have a touchstone. An incommunicable quality tells us this sentence is proverbial and that one is not. Hence no definition will enable us to identify positively a sentence as proverbial.
Seite 130 - a true riddle consists of two descriptions of an object, one figurative and one literal, and confuses the hearer who endeavors to identify an object described in conflicting...
Seite 41 - The student of folklore is thus led to examine the usages, myths, and ideas of savages, which are still retained, in rude enough shape, by the European peasantry. Lastly, he observes that a few similar customs and ideas survive in the most conservative elements of the life of educated peoples, in ritual, ceremonial, and religious traditions and myths.