Essay on a Flapjack
Philology and the Urvolk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5823177 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bustin (corresponding author), Bustin Bustin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117-117 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Folklore Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0737-7037 • E-ISSN: 1543-0413 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/jfr.2009.46.2.117 |
| OpenAlex | W2087950801 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
After surveying some familiar territory regarding the field's formulation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this essay probes far deeper into the past to conjecture on a prehistoric, metaphorical extension of a word for unleavened bread batter to a word for people. Such an etymology, with origins in the ancient hearth of Indo-European nationalities, may provide insight into the variable implications of "folk," disparaging or complimentary, when it is deployed as a term of rhetoric. Seeking to understand the fringe status of folklore in contemporary research universities, this essay draws a contrast with philology, which successfully recast itself as historical linguistics in the twentieth century, sloughing off burdensome connotations taken up during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the nineteenth-century reaction of Romanticism
Etymology · Romanticism · Cultural Identity and Representation · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
Explanation of Culture Change
Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch
Meaning and the structure of language
Toward new perspectives in folklore.
Popular culture and high culture
Metaphors We Live By
The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe
Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics
On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life /
An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages
The History of Folklore in Europe
Storia del folklore in Europa
Taking Stock
Of Names, Professional Identities, and Disciplinary Futures
Folklore's Crisis
Culture
The Prehistory of Sex
| Highly cited | No |
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