The Role of Folk Consciousness in the Modern State: Its Efficacy, Use and Abuse

Brown, J., & Dregang, A. (2009). The Role of Folk Consciousness in the Modern State: Its Efficacy, Use and Abuse [Video file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/225976

Description

Video footage of part of a presentation given by Dr Jim Brown (Standford University) on the role of folk consciousness in the modern state, given at the National Storytelling Conference in Bhutan in 2009. This is followed by The presentation is followed by Ap Dregang narrating 'Tshongon Dawa Zango and Damtsi Drem'.

Keywords

Bhutan, Story telling, Linguistic Anthropology, Oral Literature, Storyteller, Folk, Oral Tradition, folktales

Spatial Coverage

Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu

Temporal Coverage

June 2009

Sponsorship

World Oral Literature Project: an urgent global initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record.

Identifiers

This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/225976

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported