Ričard Dorson i proučavanje folklora u savremenom miljeu
Richrad Dorson and Folklore Studies in Modern Society

Author(s): Ljubomir Hristić
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Srpski genealoški centar
Keywords: Richard Dorson;folkloristics;folklore; city;
Summary/Abstract: Diverse range of subjects that Richard Dorson handled, or had vehemently dealt with or confronted, addressing many disciplinary quarrels, even today presents a benchmark to numerous scientists who, following his theoretic and methodological lead, approach diverse element of the folklore creativity. In his final years, Dorson and his students, made pioneering leaps in successfully obtaining and interpreting folk traditions of the industrialized Midwest. Dorsons presentation of the novel research area within folklore studies, in his seminal publication Land of the Mill Rats, bequests the question ‘Is there folk in the city’, is there a place for folklorists in modern industrial society’, and as we shall demonstrate in this essay, such a question for him and his followers had implications for scientific goals of defining expressions as behavior, i.e. the understanding of human existence. This creation of a historic and contemporary fieldwork amalgam brings Dorson to the epicenter of urban-industrial America, and its new folklore.

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