FOLK 650 - Folklore and Critical Regionalism

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University of Pennsylvania

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Hufford, M. In tandem with global political and economic restructuring, and the related unsettling of national and local identities, scholarship on place has burgeoned. Recently, scholars from multiple disciplines have called for a shift from identity- centered approaches to the study of place and region to a more critical assessment of how the encounter of the local with "the larger than local" is articulated (Shuman, 1993). "Critical regionalism," a term hailing from architectual theory, names an effort to "frame a dialogue between localized dimensionality and the imperatives of international architecture" (Frampton, 1981). One way of framing this dailogue is to examine the imaginaries that span disjunct places "twinned" through those larger than local processes, imaginaries that regionalize from within (Herr, 1996). What are the foundations for such a project in folkloristics, and what is the role of ethnography in cultivating critical regionalism To get at such questions, we will examine selected regional ethnographies and place-based folklore programs. Work for the course will include 1) evaluating a regional ethnography and a public program inlight of critical regionalist theory and 2) developing, with a partner or group, a proposal for a multi-site kethnography anchored partly in the mid-Atlantic region.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

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(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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