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A Companion to Folklore

2013· article· en· W973409661 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueWestern Folklore · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicFolklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFolkloreFolkloristicsTextualityMythologySociologyPoeticsHistoryAnthropologyNarrativeLiteratureArt historyClassicsArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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A Companion to Folklore. Edited by Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem. (Malden, M.A.: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012. Pp. xv +660, introduction, photographs, notes, index. $207.95 cloth.)A Companion to Folklore is a collection of thirty-one essays, contributed by an impressive group of international folklore scholars, that seeks to represent the state of the art for readers intrigued with the field's theoretical potential and international scope (2). In an effort to present organizing principles for bodies of knowledge comprising the field of folklore and concentrate on overarching concepts that problematize the field rather than describe it (3), editors Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem bring together articles that examine the development of folkloristics. They explore central disciplinary concepts such as tradition and social base, trace its history in countries around the world, investigate its interconnections to fields like film, cultural heritage and law, and reflect on folklorists' work in both public and academic contexts.The editors organize essays into four sections: Concepts and Phenomena, Location, Reflection, and Practice. The first section contains nine articles: Dorothy Noyes on the social base of folklore, Francisco Vaz da Silva on tradition, Amy Shuman and Galit Hasan-Rokem on the poetics of folklore, Peter Seitel on oral textuality, Richard Bauman on performance, Hagar Salamon and Harvey E. Goldberg on myth-ritual-symbol, Sabina Magliocco on religion, Gertraud Koch on work and professions, and Orvar Lofgren on material culture. Each article traces the development of a concept in a way that contextualizes contemporary approaches and several, such as Bauman's discussion of performance, provide masterful overviews of topics central to the discipline. Importantly, even as they tackle the large development of theoretical concepts, authors consistently root their discussions in concrete cultural examples. Peter Seitel actually includes directions so that readers can listen to his field recordings online.Whereas the first section situates key concepts in a timeframe, the editors see the second section as one that pays full tribute to the weight of local specificity and 'local knowledge' in the field of folklore studies (3). The book's truly international character takes shape through thirteen articles that trace the histories of folklore in locations around the world: China (Lydia H. Liu), Japan (Akiko Mori), India (Sadhana Naithani), Oceania (Phillip H. McArthur), Latin America (Femando Fischman), United States (Lee Haring and Regina F. Bendix), Turkey (Arzu Ozturkmen), Israel (Dani Schrire and Galit HasanRokem), the Sudan-Sahel region (Ursula Baumgardt), German-speaking Europe (Regina F. Bendix), Finland (Lauri Harvilahti), Ireland (Diarmud O'Giollain) and Russia (Alexander Panchenko). It is hard not to read this list, let alone the essays, without raising questions about selection. Although as a Canadian I am admittedly biased, I wondered why Canada didn't warrant its own historical treatment when Oceania, a place that has not attracted much folkloristic attention, is included. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.475
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.245
Teacher spread0.218 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it