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Week 3 & 4

Folk and Traditional Culture


Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Folk Culture

 Folk Culture refers to the unifying expressive elements of everyday life as practiced by
regional, traditional communities.
Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Folk Culture

 Older conceptualizations of folk culture mainly centered on practices practiced by small-


foot, homogeneous, rural communities living in relative isolation from other communities.
But today folk culture is known more inclusively as a diverse expression of both urban
and rural constituents.
Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Folk Culture

 Historically, passed down via oral tradition and now increasingly through complex
computer-mediated communication, it relates to community and group identity
cultivation.
Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Folk Culture

 Quite often folk culture is imbued with a sense of place. If elements of a folk culture are
replicated by a foreign locale or transferred to it, they will still bear strong connotations
of their original place of existence.
Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Traditional Culture

 Traditional cultures are tribes, or other small communities of people not influenced by
technology or the modern world.
Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Traditional Culture

 Most often these communities are located in rural areas with no contact with the outside
world. Nowadays some of the most extreme examples of traditional cultures are found in
the upper Amazon regions of South America and in Papua New Guinea where there are
groups that have had little or no exposure to the modern world and maintain their
ancient cultural traditions and skills.
Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Culture of the Philippines

 Philippine culture is a mixture of East and West cultures. Filipino identity was developed
largely by the intermingling and gradual development of pre-colonial societies, colonial
forces and foreign traders.
Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Culture of the Philippines

 The Philippines in pre-colonial times was a fragmented group of states, islands, and tribes
that were ruled by their own rulers, chieftains, lakans, rajahs, datus, and sultans.
Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Culture of the Philippines

 The Spanish Empire conquered the islands between the 16th and 19th centuries, through
the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Batanes being one of the last places to be colonized in the
mid-1800s), resulting in Christianity spreading and dominating throughout the
archipelago, and influencing the religion and beliefs of the natives.
Week 3 & 4: Folk and Traditional Culture

Culture of the Philippines

 Then, for nearly 50 years, the Philippines was a US territory. Influence from the United
States is reflected in the common usage of the English language, the media and the
western fashion and clothing of the Philippines of today.
1. Wikipedia;
https://findwords.info/term/folk%
20culture; April 1, 2020
2. AlleyDog; Reference/s and Supplementary Material/s
https://www.alleydog.com/glossar
y/definition.php?term=Traditional
+Cultures; April 1, 2020
3. Wikipedia; Online Supplementary Reading Material/s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
ure_of_the_Philippines; April 1,
2020

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