The marrow of human experience : essays on folklore /
"Composed over several decades, the essays here are remarkably fresh and relevant. They offer instruction for the student just beginning the study of folklore as well as repeated value for the many established scholars who continue to wrestle with issues that Wilson has addressed. As his work h...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Logan, UT :
Utah State University Press,
©2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The importance of folklore
- The deeper necessity : folklore and the humanities
- Building bridges : folklore in the academy
- Arts and cultural policy
- "Something there is that doesn't love a wall"
- The folk speak : everyday life in pioneer oral narratives
- Documenting folklore
- Folklore and national identity
- Herder, folklore, and romantic nationalism
- Sibelius, the Kalevala, and Karelianism
- Folklore, nationalism, and the challenge of the future
- Finns in a new world : a folkloristic perspective
- Folklore, religion, and who we are
- The concept of the west and other hindrances to the study
- Of Mormon folklore
- The study of Mormon folklore : an uncertain mirror for truth
- On being human : the folklore of Mormon missionaries
- The seriousness of Mormon humor
- Freeways, parking lots, and ice cream stands : three nephites in contemporary Mormon culture
- "Teach me all that I must do" : the practice of Mormon religion
- Personal narratives : the family novel
- A daughter's biography of William A. Wilson
- William A. Wilson's published works.