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Last class Todays class

• Examples of the three areas of culture
• Overlap between areas
• Beliefs conveyed by these
• Marked categories and contradictions
• 5 criteria of folklore

• Five criteria continued
• Transmission of knowledge/belief
• What is natural and what is cultural
• More village life and its values (parallel
  Tian-Shanskaia)
  

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What is folklore 5 criteria

• Not all culture is folk non-folk examples of
  houses, clothing, songs, food
  
• Folk material is
• Traditional
• Anonymous
• Exists in variants
• Transmitted orally, or custom and practice
• Tends to be formularized

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Traditional means certain consistency within the
folk group

• House structure
• Colors used
• Clothing types
• Modes of behavior

• Not striving for the new and improved
• Not striving for the unique
• Does not mean that this will not be creative
• But no pressure for newness

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More traits

• Anonymous the specific houses versus where idea
  for this type of house came from
  
• Jokes specific joke (Jewish Samurai) responds
  to Tom Cruise film, but based on OLD joke
  please note creativity element through adaptation
  
• Variants of joke, of house, of ritual towel
  no two are the same though they are ALIKE
  because of demands of tradition

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Formularized
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Importance of 5 criteria work in your life

• Consistency in Charlottesville housing and
  messages it sends, like orientation toward
  street, fencing or lack thereof, welcome mat
  
• Toys like Barbie doll, GI Joe
• Clothes that reveal your tummy

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Transmission by custom, practice

• Telling, showing someone
• Folk cooking versus cookbook
• The effectiveness of this method amount of info
  conveyed
  
• Dropping pipe, cutting trees
• Accuracy of house in Iavorivka
• Prejudice against based on economics?
• Old versus new Lego

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But transmission by custom and practice does
exist in your lives

• Its power its undetectability you are not
  aware that you are being taught stuff and these
  are messages hardest to shake
  
• Within a culture all fits and all reinforces
• Awareness at point of contact with different
  culture
  
• Bend it like Beckham
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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More cultural contact issues

• Offering food Americans and Slavs
• Sleeping arrangements, clothes
• Property neighborhood granny and flowers
• Even language
• You have to see this movie
• Do you have a rubber? I made a mistake.
• Shampoo for dry hair
• Stuff I do on Brama

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More village life parallel Tian-Shanskaia

• Food
• Gender
• Work
• Property
• RushnykMaker
• Greg videos