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From Volkskunde to the “Field of Many Names”. Folklore Studies in German‐Speaking Europe Since 1945
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Tales of the neighborhood: Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity
No full textIn this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues. Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that is the birthplace of many major religious and cultural developments, this book brings to life the riddles, parables, and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era
Ecotypes: Theory of the Lived and Narrated Experience
No full textThe ecotype, one of the most versatile and productive concepts in folklore studies, denotes a local variation in an international type as theorized by the geographical-historical school of folklore studies. C. W. von Sydow (1878–1952) developed the term in the 1930s for describing a process of cultural adaptation of tradition, emphasizing the relationship between tradition and its environment, based on a contextual, interactional, and functional view of its transmission and change. A. Dundes introduced the ecotype in his influential The Study of Folklore (1965); R. Abrahams used it systematically in his analysis of American urban ethnic traditions. L. Honko’s major theoretical follow-up of the ecotype (1981) systematized the process of ecotypification distinguishing “adaptation to the morphology of the environment,” “adaptation to the morphology of the tradition,” “functional adaptation,” occurring as new traditions introduced into a system attached themselves to “milieu dominants” and “tradition dominants.”
Historically linked to emerging collective identities, especially national identities, the ecotype has characteristically been applied by scholars of small peoples striving to construct a separate national identity, such as S. Ó. Duilearga’s Irish, D. Noy’s Jewish, and E. Yassif’s Israeli ecotypes. Partly deconstructing the nationally constructed ecotypes, T. Alexander has worked with smaller ethnic and family ecotypes, and G. Hasan-Rokem has developed the interpretive aspects of the ecotype by discussing its potential to express relationships across groups in cultural “contact zones,” especially in historical, ancient contexts and in long duration. D. Hopkins has introduced the ecotype as the best possible tool to elicit the voices of the otherwise unheard parts of past populations, creating a bridge between cultural history and social history, pointing at further productive interdisciplinary potentials of the concept in folklore studies and beyond
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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