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Globalization can often subsumed folk culture. What are its positive and negative effects?

  • UPSC 2019
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

Folk culture is the culture of small, homogeneous, historically isolated and largely rural groups — transmitted orally and by imitation across generations, anonymous in authorship, slow to change, and bound tightly to a particular place and the materials that place yields; it is expressed in craft, dress, food, dwelling form, music, dance, festival and oral…

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  • Folk Culture Against Popular Culture: The Distinction the Answer Turns On
  • Mechanisms by Which Globalisation Subsumes Folk Forms
  • Negative Effects on Folk Culture
  • Positive Effects on Folk Culture
  • Value Addition: The Indian Evidence
  • The Analytical Resolution: From Lived Practice to Curated Heritage

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