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Title Folk groups and folklore genres : a reader / Elliott Oring, editor.

Publication Info. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [1989]
©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 384 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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; Portal case: authenticity, tourism, traditions, and the law / Deirdre Evans-Pritchard -- Section II. Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Folklore: 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; Last Forty-niner : the uses of history in the Mother Lode / Russell Frank -- Section V. Children's Folklore: 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: Structure of the Turkish romances / Ilhan Basgoz; 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; 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: Nebraska round barn / Roger L. Welsch; 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; Study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation / Alan Dundes; Documenting folklore : the annotation / Elliott Oring.
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Subject Folklore.
Folklore.
Folklore -- United States.
United States.
United States -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Oring, Elliott, 1945-
Other Form: Print version: Folk groups and folklore genres. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©1989 0874211409 (DLC) 88027810 (OCoLC)18521202
Print version: Folk groups and folklore genres. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©1989 9780874211405 (DLC) 88027810 (OCoLC)18521202
ISBN 9780874213904 (electronic book)
0874213908 (electronic book)
0874211409 (paperback)
9780874211405 (paperback)