Folk Culture What is folk culture Folk Culture
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Folk Culture
What is folk culture?
Folk Culture is the practices of a relatively small group of people in a focused area.
Usually relatively isolated Anonymous hearths, anonymous sources, anonymous dates Are often isolated or have multiple hearths Often dependent on the environment Folk Culture Usually practiced by small, homogenous groups in isolated areas.
Groups that practice a Folk Culture can be expressed in three ways:
Indigenous Cultures A culture group made up of the original inhabitants of a territory that is distinct from the dominant national culture.
Folk Culture Region A culture group where norms are traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Subculture A group that shares in some parts of the dominant culture but has their own distinctive values, norms, language, and/or material culture.
Folk Music
Music composed by unknown composers and transmitted through oral tradition. Contains important life cycle event (birth, death, and marriage) customs. Often used to teach successive generations about culturally relevant topics.
A Vietnamese Folk Song While seedlings for the summer crop are no old when they are three months of age, Seedlings for the winter crop are certainly not young when they are one-and-a-half months old.
Reflect both cultural and environmental influences Folk Housing Houses from different regions can be vastly different even in similar environments. Often based on the resources available
Types of Materials
Materials: Thatching
Materials: Mud brick
Materials: Sod
Materials: Timber
Materials: Stone
Vernacular Housing in the US
New England Salt Box Two Chimney Cape Cod Front Gable and Wing
Salt Box House
Two Chimney House
Cape Cod House
Front Gable and Wing House
Middle Atlantic I-House Swiss. German Barn House Lower. Chesapeak e Steep Roof
I-House
Barn House
- Folk culture and popular culture venn diagram
- Folk culture and popular culture venn diagram
- Chapter 4 folk and popular culture
- Why do ldcs fear the loss of folk culture
- Folk culture sports
- How does folk culture diffuse
- Folk and popular culture
- Amish folk culture
- Folk examples
- Whats pop culture
- Folk culture origins
- How do the origins of folk and popular culture differ?
- Popular culture definition ap human geography
- Why is access to folk and popular culture unequal
- Folk culture definition
- Threats to folk culture
- Folk culture ap human geography
- Where does the 100 take place
- Why is folk culture clustered?
- Folk and popular culture
- Stroke culture method
- Carpet culture microbiology
- Sociologists define a symbol as
- American vs indian culture
- Adaptive culture from inert culture
- Quality culture changing hearts minds and attitudes
- Batch culture vs continuous culture
- Stroke culture method