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Title Imagined states : nationalism, utopia, and longing in oral cultures / edited by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter.

Imprint Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2001.

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Mountains of cheese and rivers of wine: Paesi di Cuccagna and other gastronomic utopias / Luisa Del Giudice -- Prefaced space: tales of the colonial British collectors of Indian folklore / Sadhana Naithani -- Working the railways, constructing Navvy identity / Reimund Kvideland and Gerald Porter -- "Who talks of my nation?" the role of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in constructing "Englishness" / Gerald Porter -- The Turkish German self: displacing German-German conflict in oriental street ballads / Tom Cheesman -- Bovine bodies and the domestication of the human mind / Cozette Griffin-Kremer -- "The poppy blossom from my native land": the married woman as exile in Latvian folk poetry / Vaira Vke-Freiberga.
Summary An international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence--some idealizations, some demonizations--in the construction of identities for themselves and for others.
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Note Print version record.
Language English.
Subject Oral tradition.
Utopias.
Imaginary places.
Ethnicity.
Nationalism.
Nostalgia.
Utopias
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Folklore.
Tradition orale.
Utopies.
Lieux imaginaires.
Ethnicité.
Nationalisme.
Nostalgie.
ethnicity.
nationalism.
imaginary places.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Ethnicity
Imaginary places
Nationalism
Nostalgia
Oral tradition
Utopias
Kulturelle Identität
Imaginärer Schauplatz
Mündliche Überlieferung
Utopie
Mondelinge literatuur.
Utopieën.
Denkbeeldige landen.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Nationalisme.
Heimwee.
Tradition orale.
Utopies.
Added Author Del Giudice, Luisa.
Porter, Gerald, 1946-
Other Form: Print version: Imagined states. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2001 0874214122 (DLC) 2001000110 (OCoLC)45757682
ISBN 0874214572 (electronic bk.)
9780874214574 (electronic bk.)
0874214122 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874214123 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1283266857
9781283266857
9786613266859
661326685X
9781474420839 (hbk.)
1474420834
Standard No. AU@ 000058146708
DEBSZ 396108776
NZ1 14250987
CHVBK 498851605
CHBIS 011058173
GBVCP 1008647896
AU@ 000062326324
UKMGB 019575878
UKMGB 020149272

 
    
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