It Makes Sense to Us

Cultural Identity in Local Legends of Place

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2365079
AutoresElizabeth Bird, S Elizabeth Bird (University of South Florida, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume31
Fascículo5
Páginas519-547
Data de publicação2002-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/089124102236541
OpenAlexW2166111354
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas40
Referências citadas20

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the role of narrative in constructing culture, deriving from scholarship in anthropology, geography, folklore, and communication studies. In this article, the author uses popular folk legends, collected in one state, to bring together some of this interdisciplinary scholarship on the central role of narrative in everyday life. In particular, the author focuses on how these shared narratives serve culturally to construct a sense of place and, with that, a sense of cultural identity that includes some people while excluding others

Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library · Epistemology · Everyday life · Folklore · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Political science · Scholarship · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies