The meaning of folklore
Subtitle: the analytical essays of Alan Dundes
By: edited and introduced by Simon J. Bronner.
Contributors: Bronner, Simon J.
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Logan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780874216837; 9780874216844
Subjects: Dundes, Alan; Folklore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Folklore as a mirror of culture; title: The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation; title: Metafolkore and oral literary criticism; title: From etic to emic units in the structural study of folktales ; postscript, the motif index and the tale-type index: a critique; title: How Indic parallels to the ballad of the "walled-up wife" reveal the pitfalls of parochial nationalistic folkloristics; title: Structuralism and folklore ; postscript, binary opposition in myth: the Propp/Lévi Strauss debate in retrospect; title: On game morphology: a study of the structure of non-verbal folklore; title: The devolutionary premise in folklore theory; title: Folk ideas as units of worldview ; postscript, worldview in folk narrative; title: As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech; title: Much ado about "sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech; title: Grouping lore; title: scientists and musicians: science in folklore; title: folklore in science? ; viola jokes; title: a study of second string humor; title: Medical speech and professional identity; title: the Gomer; title: a figure of American hospital folk speech ; "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras"; title: a folk medical diagnostic proverb; title: Getting the folk and the lore together; title: Gallus as phallus: a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play; title: The symbolic equivalence of allomotifs: towards a method of analyzing folktales; title: Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male ; postscript, madness in method plus a plea for projective inversion in myth; title: Theses on feces: scatological analysis; title: the folklore of wishing wells ; here I sit; title: a study of American latrinalia ; the kushmaker; title: The ritual murder or blood libel legend: a study of anti-Semitic victimization through projective inversion; title: On the psychology of collecting folklore ; postscript, chain letter; title: a folk geometric progression.