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Humble Theory

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Humble Theory

By Dorothy Noyes

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About the book

Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been marginal and precarious, yet folklore studies are f...Show more

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9780253023148

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published year

2016

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1

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Humble Theory

Format

Paperback

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