{"title":"Folklore beyond the Human: Toward a Trans-Special Understanding of Culture, Communication, and Aesthetics","authors":"Tok Thompson","doi":"10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.2.04","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues for broadening the purview of folklore as a discipline to include nonhuman agents as well and suggests that aesthetics could be productively used as a touchstone with which to begin to connect the discipline of folklore to other studies, particularly ethology, through the theoretical framework of posthumanism.","PeriodicalId":44620,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH","volume":"55 1","pages":"69 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2018-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.2.04","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FOLKLORE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:This article argues for broadening the purview of folklore as a discipline to include nonhuman agents as well and suggests that aesthetics could be productively used as a touchstone with which to begin to connect the discipline of folklore to other studies, particularly ethology, through the theoretical framework of posthumanism.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Folklore Research has provided an international forum for current theory and research among scholars of traditional culture since 1964. Each issue includes topical, incisive articles of current theoretical interest to folklore and ethnomusicology as international disciplines, as well as essays that address the fieldwork experience and the intellectual history of folklore and ethnomusicology studies. Contributors include scholars and professionals in additional fields, including anthropology, area studies, communication, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, performance studies, religion, and semiotics.