Legend and Belief

Legend and Belief PDF Author: Linda Dégh
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253339294
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Book Description
Industrial advancement has not changed the basic fragility of human life, and the commercialization and consumer orientation of the mass media has actually helped legends travel faster and farther. Legends are communicated not only orally, face to face, but also in the press, on radio and television, on countless Web sites, and by e-mail, perpetuating new waves of the "culture of fear.""--BOOK JACKET.