An Dúchas agus an Domhan
Diarmuid Ó Giollán
Cork University Press
Cad is béaloideas ann agus cá seasann sé idir an dúchas agus an domhan? Tuigtear de ghnáth gur rud dúchasach agus gur ghné thábhachtach de chuid na sochaí traidisiúnta é an béaloideas. Ach bhí caidreamh riamh ag an sochaí thraidisiúnta leis an saol lasmuigh: ní raibh sí neamhspleách ar an stát, ar fhórsaí eacnamúla náisiúnta agus idirnáisiúnta, ar thiarnaí talún, ar an eaglais, ar an gcultúr leannta, ar idé-eolaíochtaí polaitiúla. Tugann an leabhar cur sios ar an chultúr saibhir traidisiúnta ar chuir scoláirí béaloidis suim ann agus tugann se sainmhíniú ar ghort sin an bhealóidís mar dhioscúrsa léinn.
This book introduces the field and the study of Irish-Folklore to Irish-speakers. While the author’s Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (2000) deals with the intellectual problem of the invention of a concept of folklore and its application in an Irish context, An Dúchas agus an Domhan both describes in detail the rich traditional culture of the Gaeltacht to which folklorists applied their training and defines the field of folklore as a scholarly discourse. It is the first such book written primarily for an Irish readership and one of the very few in any language that considers both the nature of traditional society and the discourse of folklore together.
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