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Farmhouses That Became Boarding Houses In The Catskill Mountains Of New York State, Virginia Scheer
Farmhouses That Became Boarding Houses In The Catskill Mountains Of New York State, Virginia Scheer
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In this thesis the author uses oral histories to study vernacular architecture, analyzing the changes in the way people in the Catskills have used buildings, specifically farm dwellings, to make a living, first as farmers and then as proprietors of boarding houses. The Catskills region in upstate New York is well known for its dairy farms and also for its resorts, but little has been researched to trace continuities and discrepancies between the rural residents and urban visitors. Boarding on farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showed continuity between the two groups: recent immigrants who lived in …
National Powers Of Belief: Folklore, Mythology And Festival In Nazi Germany, Kirsten Anderson
National Powers Of Belief: Folklore, Mythology And Festival In Nazi Germany, Kirsten Anderson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In this thesis, I examine the relationship between folklore and nationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. More specifically, I focus on how the Nazis used folklore and the work of folklorists in their propaganda. The first chapter documents the development of nationalism and the creation of the discipline of folklore based on the theories of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) and Wilhelm Riehl (1823-1897). Herder wanted the Germans to rediscover their national heritage through folklore materials, and Riehl argued that folklore and folklorists should serve the Fatherland. In the 1930s, the Nazi Party used the discipline of folklore as a tool …
Beyond Celebration: A Call For The Study Of Traditions Of Dominance, Ann Ferrell
Beyond Celebration: A Call For The Study Of Traditions Of Dominance, Ann Ferrell
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In this thesis I examine why and how the focus on aesthetic expression and the avoidance of making certain types of value judgments have shaped the discipline of folklore. In the first chapter I look briefly at some of the major figures and themes in our history in order to ascertain how we arrived at the perspective from which we now work. In Chapter Two I explore and critically examine the limited examples of North American folklore scholarship that examines "dysfunctional" folklore. In Chapter Three I consider the study of belief as an example of an area of folklore scholarship …