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Title Folklore in the modern world / edited by Richard M. Dorson.

Publication Info. The Hague [Noordeinde 41] : Mouton ; Chicago : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Aldine, [1978]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 364 pages).
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Series World anthropology
World anthropology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Contents General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; Introduction; Folklore in the Modern World; SECTION ONE: FOLKLORE AND THE CITY; Migration and Urbanization of a Traditional Culture: An Italian Experience; An Oil Boom, Women, and Changing Traditions: A Study of Libyan Women in Benghazi; The Impact of Urbanization on Shukriyya Life and Folk Poetry; Modern and Traditional Aspects of Somali Drama; Aspects of the Folklore of the Jamaican Ethnic Minority in Britain: A Preliminary Consideration; Culture Shock and Narrative Creativity; SECTION TWO: FOLKLORE AND IDEOLOGY
Myth and Superstition in Communist China's Drama and TheatreSECTION THREE: FOLKLORE AND THE MASS MEDIA; The Wandering Infant-Noble Theme in Japanese Legends and Mass Media; Influences of Mass Media on Folklore in Egypt; Traditional Culture, Folklore, and Mass Culture in Contemporary Yugoslavia; SECTION FOUR: FOLKLORE AND INDUSTRIALISM; Tourist Archeofolklore in Greece; Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong; Folklore and Culture Change: Lau Riddles of Modernization; PART TWO; Introduction: Part Two; Folklore and Cultural Pluralism
Oral Transmission of KnowledgeThe Crack on the Red Goblet or Truth and Modern Legend; The Science in Folklore: The Case of Motif D1275 -- "Magic Song"; Verbal Art in Modern Rural Galicia; Conceptions of Fate in Stories Told by Greeks; The Pragmatism of Herat Folk Theater; The Modern Local Historian in Africa; Biographical Notes; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
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Language English.
Subject Folklore -- Congresses.
Folklore.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Dorson, Richard M. (Richard Mercer), 1916-1981.
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago)
Other Form: Print version: Folklore in the modern world. The Hague [Noordeinde 41] : Mouton ; Chicago : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Aldine, [1978] (DLC) 79306913 (OCoLC)4750335
ISBN 9783110803099
3110803097
0202900606 (AVC Inc.)
9780202900605 (AVC Inc.)
9027977402 (Mouton)
9789027977403 (Mouton)