Author: Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226158686
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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Author: Richard M. Dorson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311155953X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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No detailed description available for "Folklore and traditional history".

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Publisher: Simon Bronner
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Patricia Sawin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253052882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before. Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United States and Canada. As the first history of folklore studies since the mid-1980s, this book offers a long overdue look into the development of the earliest programs and the novel directions of more recent programs. The volume is encyclopedic in its coverage and is organized chronologically based on the approximate founding date of each program. Drawing extensively on archival sources, oral histories, and personal experience, the contributors explore the key individuals and central events in folklore programs at US and Canadian academic institutions and demonstrate how these programs have been shaped within broader cultural and historical contexts. Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential read for all folklorists and those who are studying to become folklorists.

Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874830682
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Front cover: A book of rhymes, games, jokes, stories, secret languages, beliefs and camp legends, for parents, grandparents, teachers, counselors and all adults who were once children.

Author: Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich Propp
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452902210
Category : Folk literature, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574410365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Six essays discuss definitions and explanations of folklore, and methods of teaching it. Then 15 additional essays explore Texas folklore related to such topics as police burials, gang graffiti, fiddling, ghosts, dance halls, oil fields, spring rituals, and the dialect spoken along the border between Texas and Mexico. Numerous illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700603131
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Folklore. Washington Irving and Mark Twain used it in their fiction; Sigmund Freud and William James incorporated it into their work; Henry Ford and Franklin Roosevelt promoted it. Their efforts were set against the background of folklorists who brought collections of traditional tales, songs, and crafts to the attention of a modernizing society. The ideas of these folklorists influenced how Americans thought about the character of their society and the directions it was taking. Here for the first time is a history of American folkloristic ideas and the figures who shaped them. Simon Bronner puts these ideas in cultural context, showing the interconnection of folklore studies with historical events, social changes, and intellectual movements. He follows the beginnings of American folklore studies in the antiquarian literature of the 1830s through the rise of folklore societies in the 1880s to the emergence of an independent discipline in the 1950s. In this progression, Bronner identifies several major themes tying folklore studies to intellectual history: first, the unearthing of a hidden, usable past; second, the charting of time and space; and third, the structuring of communication. More than a chronological or biographical history, this book is an interpretation of folkloristic ideas and their relationship to American society.

Author: Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415204774
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Fiona Collins
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750993448
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Do you think that legends are all about princes and princesses, knights and heroes, giants and monsters? Well, they aren't always. The stories in this book are about girls like you and girls you might know: clever, strong, brave and resourceful. Here you can read the story of Vasilisa, who wasn't afraid of the deep dark forest; Mollie Whuppie, who knew how to trick a giant; Tipingi, who was able to call on her friends to help her get out of trouble; Seren, who used her love of singing to help others; and many more fearless characters. Storyteller Fiona Collins has chosen the best of the old tales from all around the world and reworked them into new and exciting versions to be enjoyed by everyone, accompanied by magical illustrations by talented artist Ed Fisher.