Introduction by Héloïse Faucherre-Buresi, Marie Lucas

“…He developed a dynamic and critical interpretation of the ambivalent notions of “folklore” and “popular culture”. His reflections and those of Ernesto De Martino later, set within a theory of economic and political power relations, contributed to the renewal of Italian ethnology in the post-war period. …”
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Les tourismes, matrices méconnues des relations franco-espagnoles de la dictature à l’intégration européenne, 1959-1979 by Pablo Martin-Pañeda 

“…Confronting the reading of tourism by decision-makers with documents that echo a more popular culture also questions the sometimes tenuous dividing line between tourism and political fact.…”
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The Westward Spread of Eastern Learning: Jung’s Integration and Adaptation of Religious Daoism by Ming Chen

“…It will be argued that Jungian ideas such as active imagination, individuation, and synchronicity were directly influenced or inspired by Jung’s exposure to religious Daoism through Richard Wilhelm, Daoist texts, and his own adoption of Daoist Internal Alchemy techniques, an influence which would reverberate through both Western and Chinese popular culture.…”
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"Zátopek" – komiksowa codzienność długodystansowca by Mariusz Guzek

“…The article analyzes the various contexts of diegetic conditioning (including the rituals of everyday life inscribed in the narrative), the critical reception of the book in the Czech Republic, and the correspondence between the sensibilities of the authors and other modes of memory management in a field explored in (popular) culture.…”
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Going Through the Motions: American Bodies in Pharrell Williams’s “24 Hours of Happy” by Claude Chastagner

“…What can we infer from the emphasis put on happiness in this video, and more broadly in US popular culture and public policies?…”
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Introduzione by Héloïse Faucherre-Buresi, Marie Lucas

“…He developed a dynamic and critical interpretation of the ambivalent notions of “folklore” and “popular culture”. His reflections and those of Ernesto De Martino later, set within a theory of economic and political power relations, contributed to the renewal of Italian ethnology in the post-war period. …”
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Youth as actors and mediators in Tuareg theater and social life (Urban Niger and Mali) by Susan Rasmussen

“…The goal is to contribute to anthropological studies of how youth and age more generally are socially constructed, as revealed through popular culture.…”
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Le corps entre sacré et profane : la réforme des pratiques pèlerines en Égypte (xixe-xxe siècles) by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…This recent distinction between sacred and profane means to separate body and soul. The negation of popular culture has become the mainstream religion : there is no longer a place for the body in this new conception of the sacred.…”
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Les mots de la religion et de la superstition dans le Dictionnaire Languedocien d’Augustin Bonet (xviiie siècle) by Claire Torreilles

“…By focusing his scholarship on popular culture, Bonet, whose dictionary was lost for over two centuries, proved to be a pioneer.…”
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L’historien et le jeu-vidéo by Julien Lalu

“…Offer a historical step of analysis of the object-game to grab in what the historian can use this medium to understand stakes of the representations of past in popular culture. And take a example of Versailles 1685 : complot à la cour du roi soleil to include how the play, cultural and pedagogic aspects can co-exist in a game without denaturing it.…”
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Traiettorie del filologicamente corretto. Il campo del folklore nell’operato di un maestro contemporaneo delle danze sarde by Alessandro Deiana

“…The notion of folklore field will then be illustrated as giving meaning and reason to the processes of authentication and to the practice of philologically correct in a context of reflexive popular culture. The ethnographic focus will be based on the particular trajectory of the philologically correct in the context of the practice of so called traditional Sardinian dances, with particular regard to the work of a Sardinian Campidanese dance master, who will be considered as a popular philologist moving in a multifaceted and polemic scene which includes folk troups, dance enthusiasts and dancers “in the field”.…”
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Gavrilo Princip and street art: An example of ideological transformation by Lazarević-Radak Sanja

“…In order to understand the use of his biography in popular culture and in the public space, the analysis included murals in which Princip is represented as: 1. …”
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Victim or Villain? A Study of Deconstruction in Tiara Andini’s ‘Maafkan Aku’ by Meria Zakiyah Alfisuma, Eka Susylowati, M. Masqotul Imam Romadlani

“…This study offers a nuanced exploration of how deconstruction unveils alternative interpretations, contributing to a broader understanding of how popular culture uses language to express complex emotional and relational dynamics.…”
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The specifics of mass culture in the era of digitalization by L. V. Filindash

“…The author asserts the idea of the entry of samples and the use of the value fund of the elite level into popular culture. Immersive technologies provide the process of including a wide range of consumers in an alternative, virtual art environment. …”
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Ludic Populism and Its Unpopular Subversion by Sascha Pöhlmann

“…The commendable critical tendency to increasingly consider the politics of video games in general is routinely met with resistance on the part of those who insist on their apolitical nature, in parallel to other areas of popular culture. In this contested discourse, it is all the more important to be specific about what it actually means to claim that video games are political, and this essay offers one particular way in which to address this issue. …”
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O território de circulação do carro de boi alagoano em feiras, festas e oficinas: perlengas de memória e esquecimento. by Pedro Simonard, Walcler de Lima Mendes Junior

“…Finally, we address the relationship between tradition and popular culture. The data and photographs in this article represent a very small part of the whole material collected for the research called: Project for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage in Alagoas conducted between 2015, 2016 and 2017. …”
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‘ In Comes the New Black’: The Ghetto-Rural Black versus Blacksurbian Identities by Nkululeko Motha

“…This has created a hierarchy amongst Black people which has not been mitigated because of popular culture and how it influences the consciousness of Black people on race matters. …”
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Reception games of Dušan Taragel (the non-actor) by Peter Darovec

“…This period also saw a shift in readers’ genre preferences toward popular culture. The article analyses the forms of literary games with genres on the works of contemporary Slovak prose writer Dušan Taragel (1961), drawing on texts spanning his entire oeuvre from his debut book Rozprávky pre neposlušné deti a ich starostlivých rodičov (Stories for naughty children and their caring parents, 1997) to his latest novel Mafiánske balady (Mafia Ballads, 2022). …”
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“I just want to be the friendly face of national socialism” by Askanius Tina

“…Theoretically, I turn to cultural perspectives on violent extremism to bring to centre stage the role of popular culture and entertainment in the construction of a meaningful narrative of community and belonging built around neo-Nazism in Sweden today. …”
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Deux visions du noir : le roman Jack’s Return Home de Ted Lewis et le film Get Carter de Mike Hodges by Christophe BROCHIER

“…In this way, Lewis and Hodges constructed two visions of the film/novel noir that have made their mark on British popular culture.…”
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