Folklore and fakelore
Subtitle: essays toward a discipline of folk studies
By: Richard M. Dorson.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Folklore; Folklore and history; Oral tradition
Notes: Bibliography: p. 367-377.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Folklore, academe, and the marketplace; title: The theoretical side of folklore: Folklore in the modern world. Mythology and folklore, a review essay. Is folklore a discipline?; title: The oral process: Oral literature, oral history, and the folklorist. Sources for the traditional history of the Scottish Highlands and Western Islands.; title: In the Field: Collecting in County Kerry. Tales of two lobstermen. Dialect stories of the Upper Peninsula.; title: Folk heroes of the Media: Comic Indian anecdotes. The career of John Henry. Paul Bunyan in the news.