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Show Folk Material 147 Culture we may arrive at a better understanding not only of what it means to be humans but also of the psychological and moral significance of the matrix that forms and binds distinct folk groups. Folklorist Alan Dundes has recently noted that "in folklore, one finds a people's own unself-conscious picture of themselves." 31 This is perhaps especially true of the folklore of material culture, even though, as with the Scandinavians of the Sanpete-Sevier area, much of that culture was acquired through acculturation and adaptation of another tongue, through a degradation and loss of native symbols that were consciously and unconsciously sacrificed for the glory of God, for the establishment of Zion, for the dream of Americanization. Alan Dundes, Analytic Essays in Folklore H a g u e : Mouton and Company, 1975), p. xi. (The |
