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| Seneka supernatural sites, most often hill locations most often found in Seneka oral tradition |
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| phrase denoting communitas and the special nature of festival experiences, no observance of time. |
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| Older british women, difference between fortune telling and knowing the future through omens, visions, or feelings |
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| from article, precognition, esp like experiences. Going to a fortune teller- selfish, seeking or demanding something is wrong. |
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| David Hufford, sleep paralysis is a universal experience and has been found in many countries with a ominous evil presence referred to as the hag. |
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| in article"Itailians live", Italian feast in Brooklyn, Honor saint Polinas, make a tower and have a procession through the streets which marks ethnic territory |
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| In article "an Altar to St. Joseph", women make altars with things that are highly symbolic of things women do, big fig cookie on altar with St. on it |
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| Malinowski- magic beliefs cluster where controlling outcome of the environment is hard, magic bridges the gap between the outcome and what a person can possibly do to control it. |
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| Collected Ballads from all across europe and put theem into categories and publish a series of volumes |
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| Magical folk healer in Mexican belief, herbal and spiritual |
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| Transferrence-transfer sickness to other objects or people, ritual, passing through, formulaic sayings, prayers- (look more into) |
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| artistic communication among small groups |
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| as of objects and events with many genres of folklore (email her) |
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| Afro carribean religion with syncretism of roman catholicism and west african religions |
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| based on known precedence or models, continuity or time and space |
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| membership to a group with common origins |
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| home altar built for the Day of the Dead festival in mexican traditions , dedicated to dead members of the family |
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| repeated, recurrent, enactments, customs, and ceremonies carried out with reference to the sacred or some overarching power |
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| standard that workers set for themselves, under scrutiny of colleagues. sets a hierarchy. at the heart of work culture. unusual innovations become legendary. |
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| things once in contact will continue to effect you. someone does a spell on hair from your hairbrush. |
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| process of becoming an effective member of a group, through accepting and acting like them |
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| humorous cartoons or sayings xeroxed and spread throughout workplace |
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| Experience centered hypothesis |
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| using rational thought people develop beliefs based on actual experiences |
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| cultural source hypothesis |
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| if your culture tells you to believe in something you are likely to belive in and experince it |
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| African Americans who costume as an alternate ethnicity during mardi gras celebrations in New Orleans |
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| space imbued with emotions and meaning |
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| marked events which usually occur once in a lifetime |
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| the combination of two or more religious systems which create a new religion but contains elements of the old ones |
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| specialized communication known to the in group to identify each other in potentially dangerous situations, surface meaning and deeper meaning to communication |
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| killed, beat up, lose job, people are not so excepting |
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| ways of coding among gays |
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| inversion-reappropration of derogative term to turn it positive only by in group, ambiguity-surface meaning and deeper meaning, humor-puns on english language |
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| enculturation, passing on oral history & heritage for new members |
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| way by which girls compete while still maintaining friendship, alliance, and gender stereotypes about competition |
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| 3 categories of healing treatments |
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| prevention, comfort, cure |
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| stories about interesting individual in the family |
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| story about moments of change in the family |
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| hawaiian goddess believed to be angered when tourists take peices of volcano |
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| folklore created by relatives |
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| medical beliefs that are unoffical and passed on in face to face interactions and are traditional |
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| mexican spirit folk healer channeled through modern folk healers and spirit doctors |
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| socially constructed roles for biological sexes |
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| beleifs, practices, behavior which is existing among people apart from and along side of offical religion |
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| religion as it is lived, nobody practices just the offical religion everybody makes their religion personal |
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| use of more than one treatment for a sickness |
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| thought to be caused by jealousy, Sefardik Jews use garlic, blue beads, amulets which look like eyes, and formulaic phrases |
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| idea held to be true concerning the supernatural, luck, cause of phenonmena, and ideas about signs or omens |
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| a folk group based on mass mediated products, not location based and is often a festival culture |
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| Purpose of ethnic festivals |
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| perform ones ethnicity for oneself and others |
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| though you are always part of an ethnicity it may not be obvious, sometimes it comes to the for and sometimes not |
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entity believed in mexican folklore to enter womens bodies when outside of town or places they "shouldn't be"-male perspective
They are the materialization of fears young women have of sexual assualt- womens perspective |
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| "MDs, a crowd, in the air, a pair to the right" |
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| 3 Large Dr. Peppers, with two shots of cherry flavoring |
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| functions of soda fountain calls |
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| reveal creativity, shorten orders, uniqueness and identity, group solidarity |
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| cultural events which are transmitted by technological media and communicated in a mass societal context |
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| 3 Ways common behaviors transformed in festival |
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| inversion, excess(exageratedness), increased formality |
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| activities found in festivals |
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| parades, house visits, masking, giving things away |
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| How can there be versions of songs? |
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| multiple existence, variation |
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| joking in occupational groups |
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| binding, tolerate the job, stress relief, give a way for members to criticize and evaluate in non official way |
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| ways of coding among gays |
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| jargon, symbols, verbal intonation, clothing and accessories, ect. |
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| Theories of disease causation |
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| sorcery, breach of taboo, spirit intrusion |
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| opening ceremony, contest or games, food, dance, closing ceremony |
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| folklore that has to do with your work life, things you learn informally from your workmates |
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| reasons for storytelling among paramedics |
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| inversion of emotions, to displace yourself, to enculturate, bond, to talk about managing relationships with other groups-the public, the cops, er, dispatch |
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| how does a song become a folk song |
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| when it loses its author, people take it on as theirs, and usually has variation- it changes |
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| festival/cultural performance |
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| regularly occuring public display events, linked to the annual cycle. features community participation, multiple purposes, and expressive forms. |
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| occupational folklore genres |
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| jargon, rituals, celebrations, jokes, work technique, status. |
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| adolescent rite of passage in which a nocurnal pilgrimage to a supernatural site is made |
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| a main story is composed in order to organize a set of shorter stories which are storie within stories |
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| map mental map where by a person can remember where things important to them are by relating them to other such places |
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