Vernacular Culture: The Folklore Blog

This blog chronicles recent developments in folklore studies, in my very subjective style. I hope to review books, websites and blogs. It might also include much griping about folklore and fakelorists. In a word, it's folklotastic!

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I am an unemployed folklorist and a daddy.

January 21, 2006

Folk Monopoly

One of my favorite areas of study is the intersections of popular and folk culture. Fan fiction, children's games based on tv and movie re-enactments, tv drinking games, etc. Here's a site devoted to folk-developed rules for Monopoly. I think this is an instance of where folk imagination fills in the gaps left by the official rules.

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