Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bronner, Simon J

Titel

Following tradition : folklore in the discourse of American culture

Ort / Verlag

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Following Tradition is an expansive examination of the history of tradition--"one of the most common as well as most contested terms in English language usage"--In Americans' thinking and discourse about culture. Tradition in use becomes problematic because of "its multiple meanings and its conceptual softness." As a term and a concept, it has been important in the development of all scholarly fields that study American culture. Folklore, history, American studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and others assign different value and meaning to tradition