Folklore and fakelore essays toward a discipline of folk studies /
| Main Author: | Dorson, Richard M. 1916-1981. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1976.
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| Physical Description: |
x, 391 pages ; 24 cm. |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Folklore, academe, and the marketplace
- The theoretical side of folklore: Folklore in the modern world. Mythology and folklore, a review essay. Is folklore a discipline?
- The oral process: Oral literature, oral history, and the folklorist. Sources for the traditional history of the Scottish Highlands and Western Islands.
- In the Field: Collecting in County Kerry. Tales of two lobstermen. Dialect stories of the Upper Peninsula.
- Folk heroes of.
- the Media: Comic Indian anecdotes. The career of John Henry. Paul Bunyan in the news.
- Introduction: Folklore, academe, and the marketplace
- The theoretical side of folklore: Folklore in the modern world. Mythology and folklore, a review essay. Is folklore a discipline?
- The oral process: Oral literature, oral history, and the folklorist. Sources for the traditional history of the Scottish Highlands and Western Islands.
- In the Field: Collecting in County Kerry. Tales of two lobstermen. Dialect stories of the Upper Peninsula.
- Folk heroes of the Media: Comic Indian anecdotes. The career of John Henry. Paul Bunyan in the news.