Introduction to Folk/Popular Studies

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This course aims at introducing students into understanding historical, social and political conditions in the 19^th century which brought to the fore a turn to studying folk culture. So it focuses firstly on how folk culture is  related to the process of forming nation-state and crystalizing national identity. Secondly it projects the national theme on the global stage of this period. Thirdly it is concerned with the changes in the Second World war period , mainly explores how attention shifts from the folk culture to the popular one.

   So the main points of this course are:

1.      Defining culture

2.      Enlightment, colonization and Social Anthropology

3.      Romanticism and Folklore

4.      English Folklore and German Volkskunde

5.      Folklore and USA in the late  19^th  century

6.      Fallmerayer, Great Idea, Newly-established nation-state and Greek Folklore Studies(Laographia)

7.       Theory of continuity and  methodology

8.      The founder of Greek   Folklore Studies:N.Politis

9.      Stilpon Kyriakidis and N. Politis: a comparative approach

10.  Folklore Studies after the Second World War: relationships with social anthropology

11.  From folk to popular culture