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100			_aPathak, Dev Nath _913214
245			_aFolklore's contemporariness: Dynamics of value orientation in Bihu
260			_bJournal of Human Values
300			_a25(3), Sep, 2019: p.177-189.
520			_aThe folklore studies scholar, such as Dorson (1976, Folklore and fakelore: Essays toward the discipline of folk studies, Harvard: Harvard University Press), was emphatic about the distinction between folklore and ‘fake lore’, one being authentic and the other as invented by the popular industry; however, he paradoxically maintained interest in the contemporariness of folklore. This was a paradox since the contemporariness of folklore is largely, and usually, due to intersections of folk with popular and political. Nevertheless, the emphasis on contemporariness was a harbinger of discussion on the potential dynamics of folklore, and everything buried therein, including value orientation. This essay is guided by the observations emerging from folklore studies, socio-cultural anthropology and performance studies in order to get into a specific case of Bihu, a folk performance inclusive of songs, dance, attires and instruments inter alia in Assam, in the northeast of India. The curious case of Bihu in flux divulges dynamics of value orientation and intersections of identity politics, in the wake of the contemporariness of folklore. - Reproduced.
650			_aBihu _913215
650			_aNational identity _913216
700			_aKalita, Moureen _913217
773			_aJournal of Human Values
906			_aFolklore
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