Folklore beyond the Human: Toward a Trans-Special Understanding of Culture, Communication, and Aesthetics.

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 theoret...

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Publicado en:Journal of Folklore Research Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 69 - 92
Autor principal: Thompson, Tok
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Indiana University Press May-Aug2018
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Sumario: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.