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What is a traditional pastime? A traditional pastime is anything that occupies our spare time. These may include, hunting, reading, camping, horse racing, sports, cooking or anything that people like to do. Traditional pastimes relate to a traditional culture and are often time, informal like folklore. Folklore on farms and in farming families, contributes to our understanding, of what its like to have, traditional pastimes. Farmers are very smart because they are always trying to find better or faster ways to farm and this also relates in them building a traditional pastime.
Traditional pastimes need a beginning to form, just like a crop needs planting to be able to begin the producing process. These past times take, “combined forces of technology, science, television, religion, urbanization, and creeping literacy to prefer our closest cultural associations,” making something with our spare time. (Tolkein) Farmers use these combined forces wisely and have innovated farming from a horse pulling a plow to a tractor doing most of the work. Farming leaves some spare time between feeding and planting and this is how traditional pastimes form.
A traditional past time that has affected my family is chariot racing. We know in ancient Rome that chariot racing was very dangerous and involved brutal tactics to win the race. Farmers took this idea and involved it into what is known as chariot racing in the western united states today. Farmers took two plow horses and hooked them up to a sleigh in the winter time and would race other farmers . Overtime, farmers moved from sleighs to chariots, so the driver behind the horses had a little more control over their team. Now, horses are breed specifically to run and are not your typical plow horses. Its neat to see the evolution that chariot racing has taking in being a traditional past time among farmers to a traditional past time among others as well. All this was made possible because farmers had a little spare time on their hands and took and evolved an idea.
The evolution of chariot racing was made possible because a traditional culture through folklore created a traditional past time. This traditional past time helps me to understand the contributions of farmers goes, long, beyond crops and fields, as well as having an affect on others lives because my family and I ,do this traditional past time every winter now. Like farming, there is a lot of time and money that go into chariot horses, but the return of a family relationship goes far beyond any other return out there.
Sources:
Tolkein, Barre. Dynamics of Folklore. Utah State University Press, 1996. Print
Traditional pastimes need a beginning to form, just like a crop needs planting to be able to begin the producing process. These past times take, “combined forces of technology, science, television, religion, urbanization, and creeping literacy to prefer our closest cultural associations,” making something with our spare time. (Tolkein) Farmers use these combined forces wisely and have innovated farming from a horse pulling a plow to a tractor doing most of the work. Farming leaves some spare time between feeding and planting and this is how traditional pastimes form.
A traditional past time that has affected my family is chariot racing. We know in ancient Rome that chariot racing was very dangerous and involved brutal tactics to win the race. Farmers took this idea and involved it into what is known as chariot racing in the western united states today. Farmers took two plow horses and hooked them up to a sleigh in the winter time and would race other farmers . Overtime, farmers moved from sleighs to chariots, so the driver behind the horses had a little more control over their team. Now, horses are breed specifically to run and are not your typical plow horses. Its neat to see the evolution that chariot racing has taking in being a traditional past time among farmers to a traditional past time among others as well. All this was made possible because farmers had a little spare time on their hands and took and evolved an idea.
The evolution of chariot racing was made possible because a traditional culture through folklore created a traditional past time. This traditional past time helps me to understand the contributions of farmers goes, long, beyond crops and fields, as well as having an affect on others lives because my family and I ,do this traditional past time every winter now. Like farming, there is a lot of time and money that go into chariot horses, but the return of a family relationship goes far beyond any other return out there.
Sources:
Tolkein, Barre. Dynamics of Folklore. Utah State University Press, 1996. Print