Folkloristics

The class brings basic knowledge on characteristics of folklore and historical development of Folkloristics in Europe and USA. History of Folkloristics as a discipline is approached through four conceptualisations of folklore: as an artefact, as describable and transmissible entity, as (part of) culture and as behaviour. Students become acquainted with main research methods in Folkloristics. They become familiar with the characteristics, functions, structure, and style of folk narrative genres (folktales, legends). They become acquainted with the ways of folklore transmission, functions of folklore in society, studies of narrators, folklore as performance, and contemporary forms and channels of folklore transmission.
The purpose of the practical classes is to learn how to collect (tape-record), classify, and preserve folklore, collected in fieldwork research. Based on their own research, students learn basic skills of field research, of transcription of tape-recordings, classification and archiving folklore.

Basic Literature for Lectures:
1. Georges Robert A. in Michael Owen Jones 1995: Folkloristics: An Introduction. Bloomington in Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. [COBISS.SI-ID - 24302434]
2. Dundes Alan 1999: International Folkloristics. Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford, Rowman&Littlefield. [COBISS.SI-ID - 24660578]
3. Lord Albert B. 2000: The Singer of Tales, Cambridge, Mass., London, England: Harvard University Press. [COBISS.SI-ID - 24660066]
4. Lüthi Max 2011: Evropska pravljica. Forma in narava. Ljubljana: Sophia, 202 str. [COBISS.SI-ID - 260316160]
5. Propp Vladimir 2005: Morfologija pravljice. Ljubljana: Studia Humanitatis. 258 str. [COBISS.SI-ID - 221899776]

Additional Literature for Lectures:
1. Bendix Regina F., Hasan-Rokem Galit, eds. 2012: A Companion to Folklore (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology). America: John Wiley and Sons. [COBISS.SI-ID - 35113773]
2. Holbek Bengt 1987: Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Danish Folklore in a European Perspective, FFC 239, Helsinki. [COBISS.SI-ID - 28198754]
3. Stanonik Marija 2001: Teoretični oris slovstvene folklore, Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. [COBISS.SI-ID - 111592960]

Basic Literature for Practical Classes
1. Ivančič Kutin Barbara 2011: Živa pripoved v zapisu. Kontekst, tekstura in prekodiranje pripovedi Tine Kravanja iz Bavšice. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU. [COBISS.SI-ID – 259523072]
2. Ramšak Mojca 2003: Portret glasov. Raziskave življenjskih zgodb v etnologiji – na primeru koroških Slovencev. Ljubljana: Društvo za proučevanje zgodovine, antropologije in književnosti. [COBISS.SI-ID - 125773056]