ISBN:
0874211409
,
9780874211405
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 384 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Folk Groups and Folklore Genres : A Reader
DDC:
398
Keywords:
Folklore
;
Folklore
;
United States Social life and customs
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Section I On the Concepts of Folklore; Folkloristics: A Conception of Theory; Herder, Folklore and Romantic Nationalism; Tradition, Genuine or Spurious; The Portal Case: Authenticity, Tourism, Traditions, and the Law; Section II Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Folklore; The Letter in Canadian Ukrainian Folklore; Folk Medicine and the Intercultural Jest; Carnival in Canada: The Politics of Celebration; Spacey Soviets and the Russian Attitude Toward Territorial Passage; Section III Religious Folklore; Brothers and Sisters: Pentecostals as a Religious Folk Group
Description / Table of Contents:
Ethnicity and Citizenship in the Ritual of an Israeli SynagogueYou Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement; Section IV Occupational Folklore; Risk and Ritual: An Interpretation of Fishermen's Folklore in a New England Community; Tending Bar at Brown's: Occupational Role as Artistic Performance; The Last Forty-Niner: The Uses of History in the Mother Lode; Section V Children's Folklore; The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren; Transformations: The Fantasy of the Wicked Stepmother; Strategy in Counting Out: An Ethnographic Folklore Field Study; Section VI Folk Narratives
Description / Table of Contents:
The Structure of the Turkish RomancesThe Wife Who Goes Out Like a Man, Comes Back as a Hero: The Art of Two Oregon Indian Narratives; Family Misfortune Stories in American Folklore; Personal Experience Narratives: Use and Meaning in Interaction; Section VII Ballads and Folksongs; A Model for Textual Variation in Folksong; Oral Formulas in the Country Blues; The Battle of Harlaw; History and Harlaw; Section VIII Riddles and Proverbs; ""Wine, Women and Song"": From Martin Luther to American T-Shirts; ""Wise Words"" of the Western Apache
Description / Table of Contents:
""The Land Won't Burn"": An Esoteric American Proverb and Its SignificanceTotemism and the A.E.F. Revisited; Section IX Folk Objects; The Nebraska Round Barn; The Palauan Story-Board: The Evolution of a Folk Art Style; Objects of Memory: Material Culture as Life Review; Section X Documenting Folklore; Mediating Structures and the Significance of University Folk; The Study of Folklore in Literature and Culture: Identification and Interpretation; Documenting Folklore: The Annotation; References Cited
Note:
Includes bibliography: p. 375-384
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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