Review of Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Locating the Role of the Past in the Present ed. by Trevor J. Blank and Robert Glenn Howard
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2016
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Journal of American Folklore
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The editors of Tradition in the Twenty-First
Century
are to be heartily congratulated for assembling
a lively set of readings that raise important
issues, ask useful questions, and offer lines of
thought with the capacity to focus, refine, and extend the folkloristic encounter with perhaps
its core intellectual construct, the elusive yet
necessary concept of tradition. Trevor J. Blank
and Robert Glenn Howard are forthright in
their introduction about wanting to stimulate
discussion rather than provide facile answers,
and the essays gathered here can hardly be said
to advance a coherent program for dealing with
tradition in the present century. Indeed, they
do not even advance a consensual definition of
the term. What they do accomplish, and this is
perhaps a fitting accolade, is to convey a conviction
that tradition remains a fruitful topic of
contemplation, and, moreover, that folklorists
have a vested interest in pursuing this field of
contemplation and indeed have something special
to say about it.
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Published as McDowell, John H. Review of Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Locating the Role of the Past in the Present ed. by Trevor J. Blank and Robert Glenn Howard. Journal of American Folklore, vol. 129 no. 511, 2016, p. 112-115. © 2016 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
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McDowell, John H. Review of Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Locating the Role of the Past in the Present ed. by Trevor J. Blank and Robert Glenn Howard. Journal of American Folklore, vol. 129 no. 511, 2016, p. 112-115.
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