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Popular Culture as Folk Culture
Posted by: Brian | February 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Popular Culture as Folk Culture
Last week we spent quite a bit of time in class discussing how popular culture is an expression of the resistance of those people dominated by people in higher powers. I kept this in mind while reading this week’s articles, and in doing so, I found man…
Feb
2
Popular culture as Folk Culture
Posted by: Brian | February 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Popular culture as Folk Culture
The authors of this week’s readings were apparently both committed to Indian social protest and resistance. On the one hand we have Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) who is described everywhere as a giant of Guatemalan Literature. He even won the Nobel…
Feb
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Popular Culture as Folk Culture
Posted by: Brian | February 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Popular Culture as Folk Culture
Popular Culture as Folk CultureI liked the readings for this week. I think that the first readings by Miguel Angel Asturias had kind of a moral advice. In the first one the “legend of the signing tablets” Utuquel says that to create is to steal. …
