JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH最新文献

In Search of Hope amid Despair in Folklore of Epidemics 在绝望中寻找希望

IF 0.4 3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.60.1.02

Juwen Zhang

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Chinese Tales of Epidemics: In Search of Hope amid Despair 《传染病的中国传说:在绝望中寻找希望

3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfr.2023.a886955

Juwen Zhang

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Spreading Through the Streets: The COVID-19 Street Art Database 通过街道传播：新冠肺炎街头艺术数据库

IF 0.4 3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.60.1.03

David Todd Lawrence, Heather Shirey

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The Things We Already Know and the Things We're Set Up Not to See: Folkloristics, COVID-19, and the Traps of Amplification 我们已经知道的事情和我们设置不看的事情:民俗学，COVID-19和放大的陷阱

3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfr.2023.a886954

Whitney Phillips, Jeffrey A. Tolbert

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Editor's Note 编者按

3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfr.2023.a886956

{"title":"Editor's Note","authors":"","doi":"10.2979/jfr.2023.a886956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfr.2023.a886956","url":null,"abstract":"Editor's Note Solimar Otero This special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research is dedicated to the \"Folklore of Epidemics.\" The pieces offered here mirror the long and twisted journey we have all encountered in navigating the COVID-19 crisis. Thus, many of the articles in the special issue speak to research conducted in 2020 during the early days of the pandemic. We at JFR believe this provides a rich timeline with which to witness the ways that communities continue to grapple with the virus and its afterlives. As guest editor Juwen Zhang asserts in his introduction \"In Search of Hope amid Despair in Folklore of Epidemics,\" the consideration of how folklore is enacted in times of epidemics varies, crosses geographical locations, and situates temporally in memories of previous turmoil. The rest of the works in this volume also mark important moments specific to the generation of COVID-19 folklore: from street art to medical humor; from xenophobic legends about Chinese restaurants to misinformation and its amplifications; and finally, some considerations of the relevance of Chinese folktales of previous epidemics to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. This special issue speaks to an ongoing dialogue that resonates as we still encounter difficulties with COVID-19 and other contemporary health crises such as the mpox public health emergency, the seasonal COVID-flu-RSV \"tridemic,\" and so on. Folklore is central to how we negotiate, communicate, and create culture from these challenges, or, as our colleague Juwen Zhang puts it: find hope amid despair. [End Page 1] [End Page 2] Solimar Otero Indiana University Bloomington Copyright © 2023 Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University","PeriodicalId":44620,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135495735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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In Search of Hope amid Despair in Folklore of Epidemics 在绝望中寻找希望的流行民俗

3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfr.2023.a886957

Juwen Zhang

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Humor in the Time of Coronavirus: Pandemic and Expert Health Knowledge 冠状病毒时代的幽默：流行病与专家健康知识

IF 0.4 3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.60.1.04

L. Gabbert

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The Things We Already Know and the Things We're Set Up Not to See: Folkloristics, COVID-19, and the Traps of Amplification 我们已经知道的事情和我们不想看到的事情：民俗、新冠肺炎和放大陷阱

IF 0.4 3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.60.1.06

Whitney Phillips, Jeffrey A. Tolbert

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Chinese Tales of Epidemics: In Search of Hope amid Despair 中国的流行病故事：在绝望中寻找希望

IF 0.4 3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfolkrese.60.1.07

Juwen Zhang

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Spreading Through the Streets: The COVID-19 Street Art Database 通过街道传播:COVID-19街头艺术数据库

3区社会学

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/jfr.2023.a886958

David Todd Lawrence, Heather Shirey

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