Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes /
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Utah State University Press,
2007.
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Table of 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/Levi 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.