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What is Folklore Matters about?

Eight Essays That Show, By Example, What Folklore Is And How It Can Be Studied To Gain Insights Into Cultural Patterns Of Worldview. Defining Identity Through Folklore -- The Fabrication Of Fakelore -- The Anthropologist And The Comparative Method In Folklore -- Pecking Chickens : A Folk Toy As A Source For The Study Of Worldview -- One Whether Weather Proverbs Are Proverbs -- April Fool And April Fish : Towards A Theory Of Ritual Pranks -- The Psychoanalytic Study Of The Grimm's Tales : The Maiden Without Hands (at 706) -- The Building Of Skadar : The Measure Of Meaning Of A Ballad Of The Balkans. Alan Dundes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Author

Dundes, Alan

Publisher

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870496080

Subjects

Folklore, Anthropology, Humanities