zwierzeta: Folklore

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Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales, legends, proverbs, poems, and jokes. This also includes material culture, such as traditional building styles common to the group. Folklore also encompasses customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, including folk religion, and the forms and rituals of celebrations such as festivals, weddings, folk dances, and initiation rites. Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact or traditional cultural expression. Just as essential as the form, folklore can also encompasses the transmission of these ar…

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Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It has common roots with, and has been under mutual influence with, folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland and Sápmi. Folklore is a concept encompassing expressive traditions of a particular culture or group. The peoples of Scandinavia are heterogenous, as are the oral genres and material culture that has been common in their lands. However, there are some commonalities across Scandinavian folkloric traditions, among them a common ground in elements from Norse mythology as well as Christian conceptions of the world. Among the many tales common in Scandinavian or…

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Romanian traditional music (Romanian: muzica populară românească) comprises the musical traditions of the Romanian ethnos, widespread in Romania, the Republic of Moldova, and in adjacent ethnographic areas. It is a complex cultural formation that combines archaic autochthonous elements, features shared with the Balkan and Carpathian areas, oriental borrowings, and later influences from urban and Western European musical culture. Traditional music is characterised by syncretism (a close connection between melody, rhythm, text, and dance), oral transmission, and a high degree of variability: a musical work has no fixed form, but is re-created by the performer at the moment of performance. A f…

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Singing for the Whales. This chapter demonstrates the ways that performances of expressive culture can strengthen bonds based on shared ways of life and on a powerful human-nonhuman identification, even across geographic and cultural distance. The author recounts how nineteenth century Iñupiat whaling communities adopted Azorean and Cape Verdean sailors who fled the harsh life on Portuguese commercial whaling ships, creating transnational bonds of kinship. In both communities, spiritual connections to the whale became intertwined with local versions of Christianity. As climate change has made ways of life in the Arctic and island communities of the Atlantic increasingly precarious, both com…

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Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, beliefs, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry. The information is mentally recorded by oral repositories, sometimes termed "walking libraries", who are usually also performers. Oral tradition is a medium of communication for a society to transmit oral history, oral literature, oral law and other knowledge across generations without a writing system, or in parallel to a writing system. It is the most widespread medium of human communication. Th…