Folklore in the Public Square James McLachlan

Folklore in the Public Square James McLachlanFolklore is often positioned at the center of critical social issues. While folklorists have acknowledged this power and explored how folklore has been used for political ends, far less attention has been paid to the role folklorists and folklore scholarship can play in addressing contemporary social issues in public discourse. Folklore in the Public Square explores how folklorists apply their research to engage general audiences and address the

the first Muslim prayer on the Temple Mount

A lifelong activist

v=bBjUWyAn55g

This book makes the case for hospital-based psychiatry

a wide variety of assessment tools

debranning and further isolation

Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide

Bhartrhari and Udayana

educational institutions

The essays in this volume delineate these developments across diverse Hindu geographic

and jugs of wine-all of glass-to the supper table

This notion of the luminous mind was to have far-reaching significance both for Chinese Buddhism and for medieval Confucianism