Inspirational Insights: ‘Ecosystems’ and ‘Mind Viruses’ in Folklore Research: Does Folkloristics Need Memetics?

Alexander Panchenko

doi:10.2478/jef-2023-0001

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Inspirational Insights: ‘Ecosystems’ and ‘Mind Viruses’ in Folklore Research: Does Folkloristics Need Memetics?

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

Volume 17 (2023): Issue 1 (June 2023)

By: Alexander Panchenko

Open Access

|Jun 2023

Abstract

The paper deals with applicability of the ‘memetic approach’ and ‘epidemiology of culture’ in present day folklore research. These theoretical models could be supplemented by certain ideas and hypotheses borrowed from actor-network theory and the cognitive science of religion. The development of contemporary folkloristic theorising could proceed from a new experimental ethnography that would combine memory and narrative studies, cognitive research and the theory of memes with more common or habitual methods of folklore research and cultural anthropology.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2228-0987 | Journal ISSN: 1736-6518

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Published on: Jun 14, 2023

Published by: University of Tartu, Estonian National Museum, Estonian Literary Museum

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Keywords:

folklore theory,

memetics,

epidemiology of culture,

minimal counter-intuitiveness

Related subjects:

Social sciences,

Anthropology,

Social anthropology,

Cultural anthropology,

Linguistic anthropology,

Theology and religion,

Religious studies,

Anthropology of religion

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