Content

1. Folklore and popular cultures in the humanities and social sciences

2. Birth of folklore in the age of Romantic nationalism

Readings: Wilson, Willliam A.: Herder, Folklore and Romantic Nationalism (01)

3. Czech folklore and the Romantic Nationalism

Readings: Hartwig, Kurt: The Incidental History of Folklore in Bohemia (02)

4. „Gallows humor“ as strategy of resistance during the Second World War

Readings: Obrdlik, AntoninJ.: „Gallows Humor“ – A Sociological Phenomenon (03)

5. Social function of Czech folklore during the Second World War

Readings: Chad, Bryant: The Language of Resistance? Czech Jokes and Joke-Telling under Nazi-Occupation, 1943-1945

6. Folklore behind the Iron Curtain: Czech popular cultures during Communism

Readings: Oring, Elliot: Risky Bussiness: Political Jokes under Repressive Regimes (05)

7. Urban phantoms between vernacular and popular culture

Readings: Janeček, Petr: Superhero or villain? Spring Man narratives between communicative and cultural memory (06)

8. Contemporary Czech folklore between East and West

Readings: Janeček, Petr: Bloody Mary or Krvavá Máří? (07)

9. Czech children´s folklore in international context

Readings: Janeček, Petr: Current Studies of Games and Play in the Czech Republic (08)

10. Traditional Czech folklore between nationalism and nostalgia

Readings: Feintuch, Burt: The Joke, Folk Culture and Milan Kundera´s „The Joke“ (09)

11. Czech folkloristics as part of the European ethnology

Readings: Rogan, Bjarne: The troubled past of European ethnology (10)