Marrow of Human Experience, The : Essays on Folklore by William A. Wilson /

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Main Author: Wilson, William Albert, 1861-1951
Other Authors: Call, Diane, Rudy, Jill Terry, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The importance of folklore
  • The deeper necessity : folklore and the humanities
  • Building bridges : folklore in the academy
  • Arts and cultural policy
  • "Something there is that doesn't love a wall"
  • The folk speak : everyday life in pioneer oral narratives
  • Documenting folklore
  • Folklore and national identity
  • Herder, folklore, and romantic nationalism
  • Sibelius, the Kalevala, and Karelianism
  • Folklore, nationalism, and the challenge of the future
  • Finns in a new world : a folkloristic perspective
  • Folklore, religion, and who we are
  • The concept of the west and other hindrances to the study of Mormon folklore
  • The study of Mormon folklore : an uncertain mirror for truth
  • On being human : the folklore of Mormon missionaries
  • The seriousness of Mormon humor
  • Freeways, parking lots, and ice cream stands : three nephites in contemporary Mormon culture
  • "Teach me all that I must do" : the practice of Mormon religion
  • Personal narratives : the family novel
  • A daughter's biography of William A. Wilson, Denise Wilson Jamsa
  • William A. Wilson's published works.