| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mountains of cheese and rivers of wine: Paesi di Cuccagna and other gastronomic utopias / Luisa Del Giudice -- Prefaced space: tales of the colonial British collectors of Indian folklore / Sadhana Naithani -- Working the railways, constructing Navvy identity / Reimund Kvideland and Gerald Porter -- "Who talks of my nation?" the role of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in constructing "Englishness" / Gerald Porter -- Turkish German self: displacing German-German conflict in oriental street ballads / Tom Cheesman -- Bovine bodies and the domestication of the human mind / Cozette Griffin-Kremer -- "The poppy blossom from my native land": the married woman as exile in Latvian folk poetry / Vaira Vīk̦e-Freiberga. |
| Summary |
An international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence--some idealizations, some demonizations--in the construction of identities for themselves and for others. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Oral tradition.
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Oral tradition. |
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Utopias.
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Utopias. |
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Imaginary places.
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Imaginary places. |
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Ethnicity.
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Ethnicity. |
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Nationalism.
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Nationalism. |
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Nostalgia.
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Nostalgia. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Del Giudice, Luisa.
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Porter, Gerald, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Imagined states. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2001 0874214122 (DLC) 2001000110 (OCoLC)45757682 |
| ISBN |
0874214572 (electronic book) |
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9780874214574 (electronic book) |
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0874214122 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780874214123 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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