Hauntings: English Folk and Its Ancestors
Folklore in England has tended to mean something quite particular: rural, white, ancestral, rooted in a deep past most people can no longer reach.
Folk in many other places has meant something else entirely. In North America, the Caribbean, South Asia, folklore is a living, urban, plural set of practices that people make and remake in the cities they live in. Why is English folk an outlier? This talk traces the answer back to the Victorians, who built English folk around survival, prehistory and pagan ancestry, and asks whether folk in a borough like Hackney (urban, diverse, alive) might offer a way of rejoining the international conversation about what folk is and who it belongs to.
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Folklore in England has tended to mean something quite particular: rural, white, ancestral, rooted in a deep past most people can no longer reach.
Folk in many other places has meant something else entirely. In North America, the Caribbean, South Asia, folklore is a living, urban, plural set of practices that people make and remake in the cities they live in. Why is English folk an outlier? This talk traces the answer back to the Victorians, who built English folk around survival, prehistory and pagan ancestry, and asks whether folk in a borough like Hackney (urban, diverse, alive) might offer a way of rejoining the international conversation about what folk is and who it belongs to.
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