| Description |
xv, 660 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 15
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Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors Introduction (Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem) Part I: Concepts and Phenomena Part II: Location Part III: Reflection Part IV: Practice Index . |
| Summary |
"A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts Examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore Considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore "-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Pt.1. Concepts and phenomena. The social base of folklore -- Tradition without end -- The poetics of folklore -- Three aspects of oral textuality -- Performance -- Myth-ritual-symbol -- Religious -- Work and professions -- Material culture. |
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Pt. 2. Location. Translingual folklore and folklorics in China -- Japan -- India -- Oceania -- Folklore and folklore studies in Latin America -- Folklore studies in the United States -- Dancing around folklore: constructing a national culture in Turkey -- Folklore studies In Israel -- Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) Literature -- From Volkskunde to the "Field of many names": Folklore studies in German-speaking Europe Since 1945 -- Finland -- Ireland -- Russia. |
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Pt. 3. Reflection. Folklore and literature -- Folklore and/in music -- Folklore and/on film -- Cultural heritage -- Cultural property -- Folklore : legal and constitutional power. |
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Pt. 4. Practice. Seeing, hearing, feeling, writing : approaches and methods from the perspective of ethnological analysis of the present -- Imagining public -- Institutionalization of folklore. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Study and teaching.
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Folklore -- Study and teaching. |
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Folklore. |
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Folklore -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Added Author |
Bendix, Regina.
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Hasan-Rokem, Galit.
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| ISBN |
9781405194990 hardback |
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1405194995 hardback |
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