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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Topics of Research | |
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| American Experiences | |
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| Colonizing a New Society | |
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| Finding the Way Home: The Interpretation of American Indian Folklore | |
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| The Unfulfilled Promise of North American Indian Folklore | |
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| Afro-American Folk Music | |
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| The Westward Movement | |
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| Studying Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore | |
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| The Legacy of Early Afro-American Folklore Scholarship | |
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| American Cultural Myths | |
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| The Noble and Ignoble Savage | |
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| Rags to Riches | |
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| Fables of Innocence | |
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| The Myth of the American Adam | |
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| American Settings | |
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| In the Family Tradition | |
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| A Family's Repertoire | |
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| The Folklore of Students | |
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| Office Folklore | |
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| Factory Folklore | |
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| Occupational Folklore: The Outdoor Industries | |
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| The Folk Church: Institution, Event, Performance | |
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| The Black Folk Church | |
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| Mormon Folklore | |
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| Urban Folklore | |
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| Suburban Folklore | |
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| "Hanging Out": Recreational Folklore in Everyday Life | |
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| Regional Folkloristics | |
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| The Southwest: A regional Case Study | |
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| Regional Folk Speech and Sayings | |
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| The Study of Regional Songs and Ballads | |
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| Folklore, Social Conflict, and the United States-Mexico Border | |
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| Folklore of the Canadian-American Border | |
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| Americanization of Folklore in U.S. Possessions and Territories | |
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| American Entertainments | |
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| Festival in America | |
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| Folklore on the American Stage | |
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| American Sports and Folklore | |
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| American Forms and Performers | |
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| Personal Experience Stories | |
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| Conversational Genres | |
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| Folk Singers and Musicians | |
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| Folktale Performers | |
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| Folk Craftsmen | |
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| Folk Healers | |
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| Children's Folklore | |
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| Interpretation of Research | |
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| A Historical Theory for American Folklore | |
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| How to Interpret American Folklore Historically | |
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| Interpreting Folklore Ethnographically and Sociologically | |
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| Interpreting Folklore Ideologically | |
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| Methods of Research | |
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| The Field Study of Folklore in Context | |
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| Collecting Musical Folklore and Folksong | |
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| Folkloristic Study of the American Artifact: Objects and Objectives | |
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| Sound Recording and Still Photography in the Field | |
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| Using a Folklore Archive | |
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| Using Video in the Field | |
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| Folklore Research and Museums | |
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| Studying American Folklore in Printed Sources | |
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| Studying Folklore and American Literature | |
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| Sound Recordings, Use and Challenge | |
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| Studying American Folkloric Films | |
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| Bibliographies and Indexes in American Folklore Research | |
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| Folklorists at Work: A Portfolio from the American Folklife Center | |
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| Presentation of Research | |
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| Teaching Folklore to Graduate Students: The Introductory Proseminar | |
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| Teaching Folklore in American Colleges and Universities | |
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| The Publication of Research | |
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| Indexing a Folklore Collection: Balance, Flexibility, and the Empathizing Indexer | |
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| Developing a Folklore Archive | |
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| Organizing a Folklore Museum | |
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| Filming the Folk | |
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| Video in the Classroom and Community Outreach Projects | |
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| Developing a State Folklife Program | |
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| Folk Is a Four-Letter Word: Dealing with Traditional * * * * in Fieldwork, Analysis, and Presentation | |
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| Ethics and the Folklorist | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |