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Folklore matters / Alan Dundes.
- Title
- Folklore matters / Alan Dundes.
- Author
- Dundes, Alan
- Publication
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1989.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 172 p., [4] p. of plates : col. ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Eight essays that show, by example, what folklore is and how it can be studied to gain insights into cultural patterns of worldview.
- Subject
- Folklore
- Genre/Form
- Folklore.
- Folklore
- Folk literature
- Littérature populaire.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Defining identity through folklore -- The fabrication of fakelore -- The anthropologist and the comparative method in folklore -- Pecking chickens : a folk toy as a source for the study of worldview -- One whether weather "proverbs" are proverbs -- April fool and April fish : towards a theory of ritual pranks -- The psychoanalytic study of the Grimm's tales : "The maiden without hands" (AT 706) -- The building of Skadar : the measure of meaning of a ballad of the Balkans.
- ISBN
- 0870496085 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^88032616^
- OCLC
- 18778855
- SCSB-10472187
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library