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Already as a young man he recognized differences in taste and patterns of thought among people, and he spoke against ranking one as better than another, formulated in a fragment entitled, "Of the differences of taste and ways of thinking among humans" (1877-1913, vol. 32, pp. 18-21). " He opened with the statement "National pride is absurd, ridiculous and harmful. But love for one's nation is duty for everyone" (1877 -1913, vol. 32, p. 519). Herder felt that groups had differing "spiritual centers" [Volksgeist], but the differences were the best proof for an underlying universal commonality.
The question that has been brewing since the eighteenth century (or very likely earlier than that) is whether we have such a true self. The exotic within one's own cultures was sought as an antidote to the civilizatory malaise. I5 For some scholars and writers, native history was the avenue for excavating a better, more vigorous, and more sincere incarnation of one's own culture. 16 While these efforts at a restorative cultural history became important means to legitimate ethnic and national causes, the search for cultural authenticity through native, natural poetry proved of even greater consequence for both Romantic nationalism and folkloristics.
But deconstructing how knowledge was constructed is not nec- 22 Introduction essarily liberating. Folklore's "crisis" is not unique; across the academy there is a sense of loss of subject that deconstruction has brought with it. 31 Reflexivity is, however, a first step toward newly conceptualizing inquiry unhampered by concepts that are burdened by the very mode in which they are conceived. The study is organized into three parts, arranged chronologically and comparatively. The first part discusses the emergence of the concept of authenticity.
