Folklore
Subtitle: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art
Edition: Two-volume Reference Ed edition
Publisher: ABC-Clio Inc
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 892
ISBN-13: 9780874369861
Subjects: Folklore; Reference works; Sociology; Social Science; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Folklore & Mythology; Encyclopedias
Notes: VOLUME I :
Academic programs in folklore, international -- Academic programs in folklore, North American --
Acculturation -- Aesthetics -- Anecdote -- Animism -- Anthropological approach -- Anthropology, symbolic -- Applied folklore / folklorists -- Archetype -- Architecture, folk -- Archives & archiving -- Argot -- Art, folk -- Artifact -- Assault, supernatural --Audience -- Authenticity -- Autograph book -- Ballad -- Bard -- Belief, folk -- Belief tale -- Blason populaire -- Boast -- Broadside ballad -- Cantometrics -- Carnival -- Catch question -- Chapbook -- Charivari / Shivaree -- Charm -- Children’s folklore -- Choreometrics -- Clever question / Wisdom question -- Communal origins theory -- Communitas -- Comparative mythology -- Computer-mediated folklore -- Conduit theory -- multiconduit theory -- Context -- Cosmology -- Costume, folk -- Craft, folk -- Cultural relativism -- Cultural studies -- Culture heroes -- Custom -- Dance, folk -- Deconstruction -- Diachronic / synchronic -- Dialogism -- Dilemma tales -- Discourse analysis -- Dite -- Divination -- Drama, folk -- Emic / etic -- Enigma, folk -- Epic -- Epic laws -- Erotic folklore -- Eschatology -- Esoteric / exoteric factor -- Ethnic folklore -- Ethnoaesthetics -- Ethnography -- Ethnomusicology -- Ethnopoetics -- Etiological narrative -- Euhemerism -- Evil eye -- Evolutionary theory -- Exemplum -- Exorcism -- Fable -- Fabliau -- Fabulate -- Fakelore -- Familiar -- Family folklore -- Feast -- Feminist perspectives on folklore scholarship -- Festival -- Fieldwork -- Film, folklore -- Folk culture -- Folk group -- Folklife -- Folklore -- Folklorismus / Folklorism -- Folk music -- Folksong, lyric -- Folksong, narrative -- Folktale -- Foodways -- Fool -- Formula -- Frame -- Freudian psychology -- Functionalism -- Games, folk -- Gay & lesbian studies and queer theory -- Gender -- Genre -- Gesture -- Gesunkenes kulturgut -- Gossip -- Graffiti -- Great tradition / Little tradition -- 

VOLUME II :
Hemispheric approach -- Hero / heroine, folk -- Historical analysis -- Historic-geographic method -- History, folk -- History, oral -- Hymn, folk -- Incremental repetition -- Informant -- Initiation -- Inscription -- Invented tradition -- Joke -- Jungian psychology -- Lament -- Language, play -- Language, secret -- Legend -- Legend contemporary -- Legend, urban -- Life-cycle ritual -- Life history -- Liminality -- Linguistic approach -- Literary approach -- Localization -- Luck -- Lullaby -- Magic -- Magic tale -- Manism -- Marxist approach -- Mask -- Material culture -- Medicine, folk -- Memorate -- Mentifact -- Metacommunication -- Midwifery -- Mnemonic -- Monogenesis / Polygenesis -- Motif -- Motifeme -- Mumming -- Museum, folk -- Musical instrument, folk -- Myth -- Myth-ritual theory -- Neck riddle -- Night hag -- Obscenity -- Occupational folklife / folklore--    Oikotype / Oicotype -- Omen / portent -- Onomastics -- Oral-formulaic theory -- Organizational folklore -- Parade -- Paradigmatic / syntagmatic -- Participant-observation method -- Performance -- Personal experience narrative -- Phenomenology -- Philological approach -- Pilgrimage -- Popular culture -- Possession -- Postmodernism -- Procession -- Proverb -- Proverbial phrases & proverbial comparisons -- Psychoanalytic interpretations of folklore -- Psychological approach -- Public sector folklore -- Puppetry -- Rebus -- Recitation -- Regional approach -- Religion, comparative -- Religion, folk -- Repertoire -- Revenant -- Reversal -- Revitalization -- Revivals -- Rhetorical analysis -- Riddle -- Riddles joke -- Rites of passage -- Ritual -- Romantic nationalism -- Rumor -- Sabbat -- Sacred -- Sacrifice -- Saga -- Scatology -- Semiotics -- Shamanism -- Speech, folk -- Spirit -- Structuralism -- Style -- Supernatural / Supranormal -- Superorganic theories -- Tale type -- Text -- Texture -- Theme -- Tongue twister -- Toy, folk -- Tradition -- Tradition-bearer -- Transmission -- Trickster --  Urban folklore -- Ur-form -- Vampire -- Variant -- Verbal art -- Verbal duel -- Volksunde -- Wellerism -- Werewolf -- Witchcraft -- Worksong -- Worldview -- Xeroxlore.
Table of contents: title: Volume I; title: Volume II