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Author Dundes, Alan.

Title The meaning of folklore : the analytical essays of Alan Dundes / edited and introduced by Simon J. Bronner.

Imprint Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 443 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Folklore as a mirror of culture -- The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation -- Metafolkore and oral literary criticism -- From etic to emic units in the structural study of folktales ; postscript, the motif index and the tale-type index: a critique -- How Indic parallels to the ballad of the "walled-up wife" reveal the pitfalls of parochial nationalistic folkloristics -- Structuralism and folklore ; postscript, binary opposition in myth: the Propp/Lévi Strauss debate in retrospect -- On game morphology: a study of the structure of non-verbal folklore -- The devolutionary premise in folklore theory -- Folk ideas as units of worldview ; postscript, worldview in folk narrative -- As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech -- Much ado about "sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech -- Grouping lore--scientists and musicians: science in folklore--folklore in science? ; viola jokes--a study of second string humor -- Medical speech and professional identity--the Gomer--a figure of American hospital folk speech ; "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras"--a folk medical diagnostic proverb -- Getting the folk and the lore together -- Gallus as phallus: a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play -- The symbolic equivalence of allomotifs: towards a method of analyzing folktales -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male ; postscript, madness in method plus a plea for projective inversion in myth -- Theses on feces: scatological analysis--the folklore of wishing wells ; here I sit--a study of American latrinalia ; the kushmaker -- The ritual murder or blood libel legend: a study of anti-Semitic victimization through projective inversion -- On the psychology of collecting folklore ; postscript, chain letter--a folk geometric progression.
Summary Compilation of Dundes's most important analytical work, including many widely unavailable essays. Edited by Simon Bronner.
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Language English.
Subject Dundes, Alan.
Dundes, Alan.
Dundes, Alan.
Dundes, Alan https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJy4jgTHp9KrppkCCgdhHC
Folklore.
Folklore
Social Sciences.
Folklore.
Anthropology.
Folklore.
folklore (culture-related concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Folklore
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Added Author Bronner, Simon J.
Other Form: Print version: Dundes, Alan. Meaning of folklore. Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2007 9780874216837 0874216834 (DLC) 2007033333 (OCoLC)165957291
ISBN 9780874216844 (electronic bk.)
0874216842 (electronic bk.)
9780874216837 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0874216834 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1282490486
9781282490482
9786612490484
6612490489
Standard No. AU@ 000048788643
AU@ 000051394228
DEBBG BV043959698
DEBSZ 396315941
DEBSZ 481264930
GBVCP 1008653136
NZ1 14250990
UKMGB 020143707

 
    
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