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International folkloristics : classic contributions by the founders of folklore /

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. In this volume, twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folklor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Dundes, Alan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©1999.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Circular concerning the collection of folk poetry / Jacob Grimm
  • Folk-lore and the origin of the word / William Thoms
  • Request / Wilhelm Mannhardt
  • An angel flew through the room / Reinhold Köhler
  • Study of folk-lore / Max Müller
  • Method of Julius Krohn / Kaarle Krohn
  • Message of the folk-lorist / W.B. Yeats
  • On the need for a bibliography of folk-lore / Giuseppe Pitrè
  • Dialogue in Gyergyó-Kilényfalva / Béla Bartók
  • In search of folktales and songs / Boris and Yuri Sokolov
  • Epic laws of folk narrative / Axel Olrik
  • Rites of passage / Arnold van Gennep
  • Principles of sympathetic magic / James George Frazer
  • Structure of Russian fairy tales / Vladimir Propp
  • Observations on folklore / Antonio Gramsci
  • Geography and folk-tale oicotypes / Carl Wilhelm von Sydow
  • Irish tales and story-tellers / Séamus Ó Duilearga
  • Symbolism in dreams / Sigmund Freud
  • Wedding ceremonies in European folklore / Géza Róheim
  • Strategy in counting out : an ethnographic folklore field study / Kenneth S. Goldstein.