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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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Christmas
Funny
Inspirational
Intelligence
Faster
Light
People
Sarcastic
Speak
Why
Appear
Bright
You
Until
Hear
Some
Some People
Than
Travels
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Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
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Enjoy
Moments
Present Moment
Trouble
Enjoying
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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
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Disregard
Past
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There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B.
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Identity
Group
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
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Incorporation
Seems
Series
Transition
Transitions
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Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.
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Discussion
Folklore
Forbidden
Taboo
Outlet
Provides
Sanctioned
Socially
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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
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Expectations
Impossible
Nothing Is Impossible
Orientation
Progress
Combined
Expectation
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My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
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Academic
Courses
Folklore
Identity
Taught
Years
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I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.
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Be Grateful
Cease
Folklore
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
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Formulas
Past
Worldview
Future Time Past
Involves
Mentioned
Present
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The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
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Etc
Folklore
Myth
Particular
Riddle
Study
Ballad
Legend
Genres
Largely
Proverb
Superstition
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There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.
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Courses
Fieldwork
Folklore
Involving
Paper
Research
Term
Require
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Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
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Asian Culture
Children
Example
Grandparent
Piety
Worship
Ancestors
Characteristic
Cultures
Favor
For Example
Resonate
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Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
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Determine
Past
Polls
Taken
Tease
Trying
Belong
Directions
Frequently
Likely
Requiring
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In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
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Anthropology
Folklore
Genre
Students
Trying
Analyzed
Forms
Genres
Introductory
Minor
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Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
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Family Members
Fieldwork
Folklore
Manage
Members
Term
Collection
Consists
Project
Interviewing
Persuade
Serve
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As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.
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Folklore
Articulate
Speaker
Transmitted
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Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
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Quality
Respect
Environmental
Bigger
Cities
Enormous
Moving
People
Pollution
Quality Of Life
Urban
General
Created
More And More
Problems
Rural
Sites
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
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Culture
Emphasis
Light
Tactics
Trying
Unreasonable
Questions
Lens
Placed
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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
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Advantage
Class
Colleagues
Folklore
Personal Knowledge
Religious
Ethnic
Great Advantage
Inasmuch
Occupational
Regional
Traditions
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My own bias in folkloristics is decidedly psychoanalytic. I believe that the vast majority of folklore concerns fantasy, and because of that, I am persuaded that techniques of analyzing fantasy are relevant to folklore data.
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Analyzing
Bias
Folklore
Psychoanalytic
Relevant
Believe I Am I Believe
Believe I Believe I Am
Concerns
Decidedly
Vast
Persuaded
Techniques
Vast Majority
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They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
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Analysis
Data
Folklore
Items
Method
Theory
Above
Collect
Context
Gather
Lecture
Material
Merely
Texts
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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
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Collections
Folklore
Tall
Myself Always Look
Fairly
Student
Myself Look Always
Insist
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It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually one of the principal means by which an individual and a group discovers or establishes his or its identity.
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Available
Folklore
Identity
Individual
Obtaining
Principal
Date
Simply
Discovers
Group
Recognize
Scientists
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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
Alan Dundes /
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Courses
Fieldwork
Folklore
Including
Library
Library Research
Publish
Research
Seminars
Series
Carry
Student
Graduate
He Or She
The Graduate
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