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Material Folklore
The physical objects produced and used by a folk group
Costume
Special dress that enables expression of extraordinary identity in exceptional circumstances.
Three types of context
Creation
Communication
Consumption
Foodways
A folk group’s means of producing, obtaining, preparing, serving, consuming, and storing sustenance.
Memory Food
An edible item consumed in the past that when eaten in the past that when eaten in the present evokes past encounters, especially those of youth, often tied to longing for the circumstances of those encounters.
Personal Experience Narritive
A first-person account of a factual event from the narrator’s life.
Form but not content is traditional
Proverb
Traditional wisdom distilled into a single, figurative sentence of relatively fixed form,.
Vernacular Architecture
Buildings designed and created by those who will us them, relying more heavily on local tradition than on architecture as an art form.
Mudhif
Large guest houses and meeting places for sheiks.
Used by men, with codes of dress and behaviour; calm and solemn.
Raba
Dwelling that may be divided with guest house.
Used by everyone, loud song and dance.
Bayt
Single-Family, one-room dwelling
May be connected to a Sitra - a reed structure for a water buffalo.
Applied Folklore
When modern, western cultures employ of traditional culture to solve current, real-world problems.
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