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Journal Article
Public Folklore: Theory of/in Practice (A Response to Elliott Oring)
2019
Overview
People can always count on Elliot Oring as a folkloristic provocateur par excellence. Their discipline needs much more vibrant contestation of ideas about theory. His invitation to engage \"clashes of opinion\" and answer the question \"What are the issues at stake in folkloristics today?\" can open up revitalizing discourse. Responding to this charge requires, however, a more expansive view of folkloristic theory and issues than Oring provides, along with recognition of theorizing occurring in both public folklore and academic spheres. In the natural and social sciences, the certainties of positivism have given way to post-positivist, relativistic and constructivist epistemologies. The most significant volume on folklore theory of the past decade, Grand Theory in Folkloristics, demonstrates that folklorists today typically build theory through on-the-ground, ethnographic explorations of expressive behavior. Such construction of theory is contrasted with abstracted, \"authoritarian\" grand theory presumed to have transcultural validity.
