Dorothy Noyes is Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Studies, a faculty associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and past director of the Center for Folklore Studies, all at the Ohio State University. Her books include Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco and the forthcoming Sustainable Interdisciplinarity: Social Research as Social Process, coauthored with Regina Bendix and Kilian Bizer. A Fellow of the American Folklore Society, she teaches courses in folklore and performance theory, American regional cultures, fairy tale, poetry and politics, the cultural history of trash, and cultural diplomacy.

• IntroductionPart I: The Work of Folklore Studies1. Humble Theory2. Group3. The Social Base of Folklore4. Tradition: Three Traditions5. Aesthetic is the Opposite of Anaesthetic: On Tradition and AttentionPart II. Histories and Economies of Tradition6. Voice in the Provinces: Submission, Recognition, and the Birth of Heritage7. The Work of Redemption: Folk Voice in the Myth of Industrial Development8. Festival Pasts and Futures in Catalonia9. Hardscrabble Academies: Toward a Social Economy of Vernacular Invention10. Cultural Warming? Brazil in Berlin11. Fairy-Tale Economics: Scarcity, Risk, ChoicePart III. Slogan-Concepts and Cultural Regimes12. On Sociocultural Categories13. The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership14. Heritage, Legacy, Zombie: How to Bury the Undead Past15. Compromised Concepts in Rising Waters: Making the Folk ResilientIndex

"Tying folklore to larger trends in Western cultural thought, leaving behind narrow concerns with genre or fossilized expressive forms, Humble Theory showcases the potential of folkloristics to contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary conversations about culture."—Journal of Folklore Research"Humble Theory is a big book. From a small scholarly field, it announces the most substantial, far-seeing insights into the world's social life. By writing it, Noyes becomes the kind of public intellectual the United States needs."—Journal of American Folklore

Dorothy Noyes is Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Studies, a faculty associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and past director of the Center for Folklore Studies, all at the Ohio State University. Her books include Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco and the forthcoming Sustainable Interdisciplinarity: Social Research as Social Process, coauthored with Regina Bendix and Kilian Bizer. A Fellow of the American Folklore Society, she teaches courses in folklore and performance theory, American regional cultures, fairy tale, poetry and politics, the cultural history of trash, and cultural diplomacy.

• IntroductionPart I: The Work of Folklore Studies1. Humble Theory2. Group3. The Social Base of Folklore4. Tradition: Three Traditions5. Aesthetic is the Opposite of Anaesthetic: On Tradition and AttentionPart II. Histories and Economies of Tradition6. Voice in the Provinces: Submission, Recognition, and the Birth of Heritage7. The Work of Redemption: Folk Voice in the Myth of Industrial Development8. Festival Pasts and Futures in Catalonia9. Hardscrabble Academies: Toward a Social Economy of Vernacular Invention10. Cultural Warming? Brazil in Berlin11. Fairy-Tale Economics: Scarcity, Risk, ChoicePart III. Slogan-Concepts and Cultural Regimes12. On Sociocultural Categories13. The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership14. Heritage, Legacy, Zombie: How to Bury the Undead Past15. Compromised Concepts in Rising Waters: Making the Folk ResilientIndex

"Tying folklore to larger trends in Western cultural thought, leaving behind narrow concerns with genre or fossilized expressive forms, Humble Theory showcases the potential of folkloristics to contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary conversations about culture."—Journal of Folklore Research"Humble Theory is a big book. From a small scholarly field, it announces the most substantial, far-seeing insights into the world's social life. By writing it, Noyes becomes the kind of public intellectual the United States needs."—Journal of American Folklore

Dorothy Noyes is Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Studies, a faculty associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and past director of the Center for Folklore Studies, all at the Ohio State University. Her books include Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco and the forthcoming Sustainable Interdisciplinarity: Social Research as Social Process, coauthored with Regina Bendix and Kilian Bizer. A Fellow of the American Folklore Society, she teaches courses in folklore and performance theory, American regional cultures, fairy tale, poetry and politics, the cultural history of trash, and cultural diplomacy.

• IntroductionPart I: The Work of Folklore Studies1. Humble Theory2. Group3. The Social Base of Folklore4. Tradition: Three Traditions5. Aesthetic is the Opposite of Anaesthetic: On Tradition and AttentionPart II. Histories and Economies of Tradition6. Voice in the Provinces: Submission, Recognition, and the Birth of Heritage7. The Work of Redemption: Folk Voice in the Myth of Industrial Development8. Festival Pasts and Futures in Catalonia9. Hardscrabble Academies: Toward a Social Economy of Vernacular Invention10. Cultural Warming? Brazil in Berlin11. Fairy-Tale Economics: Scarcity, Risk, ChoicePart III. Slogan-Concepts and Cultural Regimes12. On Sociocultural Categories13. The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership14. Heritage, Legacy, Zombie: How to Bury the Undead Past15. Compromised Concepts in Rising Waters: Making the Folk ResilientIndex

"Tying folklore to larger trends in Western cultural thought, leaving behind narrow concerns with genre or fossilized expressive forms, Humble Theory showcases the potential of folkloristics to contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary conversations about culture."—Journal of Folklore Research"Humble Theory is a big book. From a small scholarly field, it announces the most substantial, far-seeing insights into the world's social life. By writing it, Noyes becomes the kind of public intellectual the United States needs."—Journal of American Folklore