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Nixon and the Dinosaurs: A Folkloric View of Time
A substantial number of years ago, a friend of mine explained to me his view of history. “Everything that happened before me happened at the same time. Nixon. The Dinosaurs. All of it.” He was joking. Mostly. But it’s something that has stuck with me for thirty years now, because as a view of how […]
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Using Ghosts to Understand Telephone Wires: Folklore as Cultural Ontology
Careful readers will have noticed the tagline of this blog, a critical look at the stories we tell about ourselves. As with most good taglines, this immediately raises some questions. Who is we? What stories? What is thing called telling, Earth man? So the standard academic definition of folklore is going to be something along […]