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

Includes bibliographical references.

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; The Portal case: authenticity, tourism, traditions, and the law / Deirdre Evans-Pritchard -- Section II. Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Folklore: The 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; The last Forty-niner : the uses of history in the Mother Lode / Russell Frank -- Section V. Children's Folklore: The 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: The structure of the Turkish romances / Ilhan Basgoz; The 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; The 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: The Nebraska round barn / Roger L. Welsch; The 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; The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation / Alan Dundes; Documenting folklore : the annotation / Elliott Oring.

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Compiled to accompany the best-selling textbook, Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction, the selections in this anthology extend the discussion in diverse directions, alert the reader to new problems, and introduce alternative perspectives. The essays include folklore classics and recent works, and are organized in sections that correspond to the chapter headings in An Introduction.

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