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Folk groups and folklore genres : a reader /
Compiled to accompany the best-selling textbook, Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction, the selections in this anthology extend the discussion in diverse directions, alert the reader to new problems, and introduce alternative perspectives. The essays include folklore classics and recent w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
©1989.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section I. On the Concepts of Folklore: Folkloristics: a conception of a theory / Thomas A. Burns; Herder, folklore and romantic nationalism / William A. Wilson; Tradition, genuine or spurious / Richard Handler and Jocelyn Linnekin; The Portal case: authenticity, tourism, traditions, and the law / Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
- Section II. Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Folklore: The letter in Canadian Ukrainian folklore / Robert B. Klymasz; Folk medicine and the intercultural jest / Américo Paredes; Carnival in Canada: the politics of celebration / Frank E. Manning' Spacey Soviets and the Russian attitude toward territorial passage / Natalie K. Moyle
- Section III. Religious Folklore: Brothers and sisters: Pentecostals as a religious folk group / Elaine J. Lawless; Ethnicity and citizenship in the ritual of an Israeli synagogue / Shlomo A. Deshen; You are what you eat : religious aspects of the health food movement / Jill Dubisch
- Section IV. Occupational Folklore: isk and ritual: an interpretation of fishermen's folklore in a New England community / John J. Poggie, Jr. and Carl Gersuny; Tending bar at Brown's: occupational role as artistic performance / Michael J. Bell; The last Forty-niner : the uses of history in the Mother Lode / Russell Frank
- Section V. Children's Folklore: The lore and language of schoolchildren / Iona and Peter Opie; Transformations : the fantasy of the wicked stepmother / Bruno Bettelheim; Strategy in counting out : an ethnographic folklore field study / Kenneth S. Goldstein
- Section VI. Folk Narratives: The structure of the Turkish romances / Ilhan Basgoz; The wife who goes out like a man, comes back as a hero: the art of two Oregon Indian narratives / Jarold W. Ramsey; Family misfortune in American folklore / Stanley H. Brandes; Personal experience narratives: use and meaning in interaction / Barbara Allen
- Section VII. Ballads and Folksongs: A model for textual variation in folksong / Thomas A. Burns; Oral formulas in the country blues / John Barnie; The Battle of Hawlaw / Frances James Child, editor; History and Harlaw / David D. Buchan
- Section VIII. Riddles and Proverbs: "Wine, women and song": from Martin Luther to American T-shirts / Wolfgang Mieder; "Wise words" of the Western Apache / Keith H. Basso; "The land won't burn": an esoteric American proverb and its significance / James P. Leary; Totemism and the A.E.F. revisited / Elliott Oring
- Section IX. Folk Objects: The Nebraska round barn / Roger L. Welsch; The Palauan story-board: the evolution of a folk art style / Roger Mitchell; Objects of memory: material culture as life review / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
- Section X. Documenting Folklore:dtMediating structures and the significance of university folk / Jay Mechling; The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation / Alan Dundes; Documenting folklore : the annotation / Elliott Oring.