Folk Groups and Folklore Genres Reader A Reader

Name: Folk Groups and Folklore Genres Reader A Reader
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ISBN: 9780874211405

ISBN-10: 0874211409

ISBN-13: 9780874211405

Edition: 1989

Authors: Elliott Oring

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The reader's essays complement those included in the introduction, extending the discussion in diverse directions, alerting the reader to new problems, and introducing alternating perspectives.

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 5/1/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.04" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface



On the Concepts of Folklore


Herder, Folklore and Romantic Nationalism


Tradition, Genuine or Spurious


The Portal Case: Authenticity, Tourism, Traditions And the Law



Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Folklore


Folk Medicine and the Intercultural Jest


Carnival in Canada: the Politics of Celebration


Spacey Soviets and the Russian Attitude Toward Territorial Passage



Religious Folklore


Ethnicity and Citizenship in the Ritual of An Israeli Synagogue Shlomo A. Deshen


You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of The Health Food Movement Jill Dubisch



Occupational Folklore


Tending Bar at Brown's: Occupational Role As Artistic Performance


The Last Forty-Niner: the Uses of History in The Mother Lode



Children's Folklore


Transformations: the Fantasy of The Wicked Stepmother


Strategy in Counting Out: an Ethnographic Folklore Field Study



Folk Narratives


The Wife Who Goes Out like a Man, Comes Back as A Hero: the Art of Two Oregon Indian Narratives


Family Misfortune Stories in American Folklore


Personal Experience Narratives: Use and Meaning In Interaction



Ballads and Folksongs


Oral Formulas in the Country Blues John Barnie


The Battle of Harlaw


History and Harlaw



Riddles and Proverbs


"Wise Words" of the Western Apache


"The Land Won't Burn": an Esoteric American Proverb And Its Significance


Totemism and the A.E.F. Revisited



Folk Objects


The Palauan Story-Board: the Evolution of A Folk Art Style


Objects of Memory: Material Culture as Life Review Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett



Documenting Folklore


The Study of Folklore in Literature and Culture Identification and Interpretation Alan Dundes


Documenting Folklore: the Annotation Elliott Oring


References Cited