An Alan Dundes article titled “Nationalistic Inferiority Complexes” cites the Kalevala, the Brothers Grimm tales, and the Ossian legends as examples of this concept. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this term, coined by the scholar Richard Dorson, that refers to stories like the Paul Bunyan myth that have been embellished, rewritten, or made up.
ANSWER: fakelore
[10e] Nationalistic fakelore was also attacked in an Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger book titled The Invention of [this concept]. Another classic work says that this concept has allowed people to keep their balance “for many, many years.”
ANSWER: tradition [accept The Invention of Tradition] (The “other classic work” is “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof.)
[10h] In his later career, Dorson conducted study of the folklore of the Serbian community in Gary, Indiana, where traditional songs and epic poetry were often performed accompanied by one of these two instruments. Name either.
ANSWER: gusle or tamburitza [accept tambura; reject “guslars”]
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