美国的民俗American folklore.pptVIP

American folklore(Superstition, Customs, Tradition)美国民俗—迷信、习俗、传统 Ⅰ. Definitions What is folklore? Folklore is a collection of all mental frameworks, rules, categories, and patterns that a particular group of people have collected and passed along from generation to generation. Folklore can take many forms, songs, stories, arts, and proverbs…among which superstitions, customs, and traditions are the only way that folklore is expressed in the lives of ordinary people. What are customs and traditions? Customs and traditions are also expressions of folklore. They are behaviors that may be rel