folklore mini test 2

Context

Surrounding the frame on which your research takes place

Fieldwork

Collecting, and studying peoples work in their natural environment

Ethnography

A disciplined attempt to discover and describe the symbolic resources with which members of a society conceptualize and interpret their experience - “Type of interview”

Interview

A structured conversation that allows researchers to learn about how people live, create and believe

Fieldnotes

A record of what happened, adding context to an environment

Supernatural legend

Told by third-person accounts of occurrences and events caused by or involving the supernatural

Legend tripping

Involves feeling the experience of something happening, or tricking your brain into believing something

Ostension

The enactment of legend through behavior rather than narrative - reanacting a legend back to life

Liminality

Middle of a transiston that wouldnt last - Wedding separation, crossing a bridge

Personal experience narrative

Narratives told in first person about a personally experienced event or situation

Memorate

Personal experience narrative about a supernatural experience

St. Ann's (Anne's) Retreat

Property in Utah that is the subject of many legends and history

Halloween

Originated from Samhain, believed to have a boundry between the dead leaving people to wear costumes

Samhain

Celtic new year, believing spirits could enter back and forth on this day

Día de los Muertos

Variety of customs of decoration and celebration of lost ones