This refers to the physical objects that are associated with a particular culture, or folk group. Think of all those things we made with paper.
What is material culture?
100
Thinking back to the four characteristics of folklore that Dr. Evans gave us, this one deals with folklore's expressive and creative side.
What is the aesthetic?
100
This is a category of culture distinguished from popular or elite culture.
What is folk culture?
100
In doing fieldwork, this document allows your information to be available in an archive.
What is a release form?
100
This is the type of folklore associated with a specific job.
What is occupational?
200
This term, coined by folklorist Barre Toelken, refers to the smallest possible folk group. "Hey Best Friend, did you know we are a..."
What is dyad?
200
This is one of the four characteristics of folklore, and refers to the ways that folklore is passed on.
What is "Tradition?"
200
This term is used to refer to the way that some people may call soft drinks 'soda' while others may refer to them as 'pop'.
What is vernacular speech or regional speech?
200
This is the process by which an audio file is recorded in a word document in a word for word manner.
What is transcribing?
200
Esoteric forms of communication, refer to this group perspective.
What is insider, emic.
300
Of the three major genres of folklore, this is the one that deals with those aspects of folklore which are spoken.
What is verbal folklore?
300
This concept refers to folklore's ability to express ideas and sentiments.
What is communication?
300
Folklore __ a process, as well a grouping of "things," both material and immaterial.
What is "Is"
300
This type of question is designed for allowing the subject more room in their response, and also allows for a wider array of information.
What is an open ended response question?
300
This perspective, as it regards communication, refers to the way in which folk groups communicate with non-affiliated peoples.
What is outsider/exoteric?
400
This term refers to "the process of studying and learning about groups of people, as well as the written description and analysis of those observations."
What is ethnography?
400
This aspect of folklore refers to its ability to morph and change.
What is variation?
400
The written documentation, including all relevant details, of a fieldwork experience.
What are fieldnotes?
400
This folk group refers to people who are biologically, adopted, or self-selected.
What is a family folk group?
500
Perhaps the most difficult genre of folklore to define, this genre deals with "repeated, habitual action(s), a usual way of doing something." Sims and Stephens, 16.
What is Customary folklore.
500
The is the most basic, two-word definition of culture that Dr. Evans gave us.
What is "learned behavior"?
500
Elvis belongs to this category of culture.
Trick question! What is popular culture (his music on the radio), or folk culture (Elvis impersonators).
500
This is the broad term, also a branch of philosophy, which describes the correct conventions that surround the handling and use of the fieldwork materials.
What is Ethics?
500
This term, which conveys the frequency that a group comes into contact with itself, is known as.