| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Folklore as a Networked Economy: Or, How a Recently-Invented-but-Traditional Artifact Reveals the Way Folkloric Production Has Always Worked; 2. Branding Unibroue: Selling Québécois Folklore through Beer; 3. Market Forces and Marketplace Economics at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival; 4. The Sweet Spot: An Epistemological Approach to the Economics of Sugarmaking in Vermont; 5. Where the Creel Boats Go: The Politics of Sustainable Fisheries in a Small Orkney Community |
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6. The Economics of Curation and Representation: Dialogues in the Commemorative Landscape of Portsmouth, Ohio7. An Ordered Mess: Folk Narratives and Practices in a Chinese Hui Muslim Market; 8. Art/Work: Precarious Encounters and Vernacular Economic Remedies; 9. From Vision to Implementation: Clashing Values of Economic Idealism and Solvency in Twin Oaks Community, 1967-1979; 10. "Why the Sea Is Salty": Folktales as Sources of Grassroots Economics; 11. What Would Hermes Do? A Jungian Perspective on the Trickster and Business Ethics; 12. Folk Economies and the Artisan Workshop |
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13. Consuming Authenticities: An Economics of FolkloristsAbout the Authors; Index |
| Summary |
"Voices from multiple disciplines consider how economics shape and are shaped by folk groups and academic disciplines and goes far beyond the well-trod examinations of material culture to look closely at the historical and contemporary intersections of these two disciplines and provoke cross-disciplinary conversation and collaboration"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Markets -- Folklore
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Material culture -- Economic aspects
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Folklore -- Economic aspects
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Markets
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Batra-Wells, Puja
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| LC no. |
2019020035 |
| ISBN |
9781607327851 |
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1607327856 |
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