Characteristics Of Folk Culture
Folk Practices of the Tiwas: Destructuring of Cultural System
0.0. Introduction Folk practices being integral structures of a whole composite cultural system are layered with manifold meanings. Thus a cultural system as a treasure house of a community is actually a stratified system carved with multiple interdependent structures. Changes are unavoidable phenomenon in any cultural system and they don’t become strikingly distinguishable until and unless they are made to configured enough to fit into that system. As the structures are integrated whole, therefore changes in one certainly bring changes to the others. The present scenario of a cultural system apparently holds the repercussions of change and continuity; but to what extent …show more content…
Lore Every ‘folk’ group has its own lore exhibiting their creative abilities.
Existence Continuity of the traditions by the members of a folk group shows their existence as distinct from other ‘folk’ groups.
Identity A folk group maintains group identity through observances of the folk practices in order to perpetuate group’s solidarity.
1.0.2. Folklore ‘Folklore’ is fascinatingly a pervasive entity of the life of a community. ‘Folklore’ is what one craves the way he/she wants. It is the broader depiction of those attributions which are the result of close association between men and nature. Men live in a society and their existence in the society embody those beliefs, behaviours, actions etc which come into being spontaneously and is shaped by the enduring characteristics of the environment where they appear. The unpretentious manifestation of inherent abilities of people get reflected in everything they do. Eventually these manifestations are depicted through tales, myths, legends, beliefs, performances and observances etc. Thus folklore encompasses each and every minor and major detail of the life ways of a community. Folklore not only bears the knowledge of the past, it is the representation of the contemporary time as well. It is present in the environment and it embraces those information, skills, concepts, products etc. which one procures, accepts, uses, transforms, and transmits inescapably by birth. So it is the vivid account of the life of a community elucidated by the members
0.0. Introduction Folk practices being integral structures of a whole composite cultural system are layered with manifold meanings. Thus a cultural system as a treasure house of a community is actually a stratified system carved with multiple interdependent structures. Changes are unavoidable phenomenon in any cultural system and they don’t become strikingly distinguishable until and unless they are made to configured enough to fit into that system. As the structures are integrated whole, therefore changes in one certainly bring changes to the others. The present scenario of a cultural system apparently holds the repercussions of change and continuity; but to what extent …show more content…
Lore Every ‘folk’ group has its own lore exhibiting their creative abilities.
Existence Continuity of the traditions by the members of a folk group shows their existence as distinct from other ‘folk’ groups.
Identity A folk group maintains group identity through observances of the folk practices in order to perpetuate group’s solidarity.
1.0.2. Folklore ‘Folklore’ is fascinatingly a pervasive entity of the life of a community. ‘Folklore’ is what one craves the way he/she wants. It is the broader depiction of those attributions which are the result of close association between men and nature. Men live in a society and their existence in the society embody those beliefs, behaviours, actions etc which come into being spontaneously and is shaped by the enduring characteristics of the environment where they appear. The unpretentious manifestation of inherent abilities of people get reflected in everything they do. Eventually these manifestations are depicted through tales, myths, legends, beliefs, performances and observances etc. Thus folklore encompasses each and every minor and major detail of the life ways of a community. Folklore not only bears the knowledge of the past, it is the representation of the contemporary time as well. It is present in the environment and it embraces those information, skills, concepts, products etc. which one procures, accepts, uses, transforms, and transmits inescapably by birth. So it is the vivid account of the life of a community elucidated by the members