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Science, Bread, and Circuses: Folkloristic Essays on Science for the Masses

Autor Gregory Schrempp
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2014 – vârsta de la 19 ani
InScience, Bread, and Circuses, Gregory Schrempp brings a folkloristic viewpoint to the topic of popular science, calling attention to the persistence of folkloric form, idiom, and worldview within the increasingly important dimension of popular consciousness defined by the impact of science.
Schrempp considers specific examples of texts in which science interpreters employ folkloric tropes—myths, legends, epics, proverbs, spectacles, and a variety of gestures from religious traditions—to lend credibility and appeal to their messages. In each essay he explores an instance of science popularization rooted in the quotidian round: variations of proverb formulas in monumental measurements, invocations of science heroes like saints or other inspirational figures, the battle of mythos and logos in parenting and academe, the meme's involvement in quasi-religious treatments of the problem of evil, and a range of other tropes of folklore drafted to serve the exposition of science.

Science, Bread, and Circusesplaces the relationship of science and folklore at the very center of folkloristic inquiry by exploring a range of attempts to rephrase and thus domesticate scientific findings and claims in folklorically imbued popular forms.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780874219692
ISBN-10: 0874219698
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Utah State University Press
Colecția Utah State University Press

Recenzii

"Describing himself as 'a folkloristically oriented mythologist,' the author displays an impressive breadth of knowledge, all of which he presents in an engaging and accessible manner. . . . [the book] should appeal to anthropologists, astronomers, folklorists, mythologists, philosophers, and historians of science and technology."
—J. I. Deutsch, CHOICE

Notă biografică

Gregory Schremppis professor of folklore and director of Mythology Studies at Indiana University and author ofThe Ancient Mythology of Modern ScienceandMagical Arrows: The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe.