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superorganic

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superorganic [ˌsuːpərɔːˈgænɪk]
adj
(Sociology) Sociol (no longer widely used) relating to those aspects of a culture that are conceived as being superior to the individual members of the society
superorganicism  n
superorganicist  n
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Early folklorists often neglected to pay attention to the actual individual tradition participants, positing a superorganic view of tradition that was very far from a view of tradition that could incorporate considerations of individual brain structure and function (Krohn 1926).
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My concern has been to go beyond a conception of oral literature as disembodied superorganic stuff and to view it contextually and ethnographically, in order to discover the individual, social, and cultural factors that give it shape and meaning in the conduct of social life.
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The difficulty of the notion of the copy in folklore is that folklore itself--rather like language--is usually understood as being anonymous, communal, and characterized by variation, where the superorganic "original" exists only in the virtual world of langue or competence or Aarne-Thompson type, and the "copy" alone--parole, performance, version--has an objective existence, even if only in the moment of utterance.
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