folk traditions
Handed-down community ways
Folk traditions are customs, practices, stories, songs, and crafts passed down through generations within a community, typically by word of mouth or demonstration rather than formal instruction.
They include everything from holiday rituals and folk medicine to regional cooking methods and handcrafts: The quilt patterns preserve folk traditions from the Appalachian highlands.
Folk traditions often define cultural identity and persist alongside or in tension with mainstream culture.
- fairy talesTraditional magical children's stories
- danceRhythmic bodily movement
- songMusical piece with words
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
- proverbsTraditional wisdom capsules
old wives tales · fireside stories · initiation rituals · heritage · ancestor worship · cultural heritage · elder wisdom · ceremonial dances · handfasting · oral history · passing down · pottery · family recipes · harvest festivals · May Day · country fair · cultural preservation · quilts
- Erzgebirgesilver mining, wood carving, nutcrackers, tin mining, mining towns
- Heimatkunstvillage life, regional dialects
- Nepali culturevarna, topi, Mustang, ethnic groups, caste system
- Romanian musichora, wedding music, wedding songs, ritual songs, ceremonial songs
- culturemusic taste, beliefs, food preferences, custom, festivals
- cultural historyart history, music history, cultural artifacts, cultural memory, cultural movements
folk traditionsbureaucratic procedures
Formal administrative processes
statutory requirements · written law · corporate culture · government decrees
folk traditionsmodern innovations
Novel developments of today
futurism · fads · pop culture · novelty · technological disruption
folk traditionshigh culture
Society's esteemed artistic traditions
elite culture · fine art · classical traditions · court culture · bourgeois culture