Achttien stellingen over volkskunde en cultuuronderzoek. Een weerwoord op de reactie van Ton Dekker

Samenvatting

A rebuttal to Ton Dekker's critique (see abstract in SA 44:3) of De Blécourt's distinction between culture & folk culture in anthropology (see SA 43:4/9508017). Key topics include: problems with sociocentric views; the goal of folklore studies to focus on meaning as conveyed through social, economic, & ecological contexts of culture; culture as conflict over meaning; relationships with other disciplines; the danger that folklore studies will lose the focus they have had since the 1700s; the influence of socio-evolutionary modes of thought; selection mechanism for folk tales; differences between oral & written transmission; folk healing; witchcraft; gender studies; & the development of new meanings & images. M. Meeks