Folklore and folklife, an introduction. Cover Image

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Folklore and folklife, an introduction. Edited by Richard M. Dorson.

Dorson, Richard Mercer, 1916-1981 (Author).

Summary:

Describes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.

Record details

ISBN: 0226158705
ISBN: 9780226158709
Physical Description: x, 561 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1972]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographies.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface ; Concepts of folklore and folklife studies / Richard M. Dorson -- Folk narrative / Linda Dégh -- Narrative folk poetry / W. Edson Richmond -- Folk epic / Felix J. Oinas -- Proverbs and proverbial expressions / Roger D. Abrahams -- Riddles / Roger D. Abrahams and Alan Dundes -- Folk speech / W. Edson Richmond -- Festivals and celebrations / Robert J. Smith -- Recreations and games / Robert A. Georges / Folk medicine / Don Yoder -- Folk religion / John C. Messenger -- Folk crafts / Warren E. Roberts -- Folk art / Henry Glassie -- Folk architecture / Warren E. Roberts -- Folk costume ; Folk Cookery / Don Yoder -- Folk drama / Roger D. Abrahams -- Folk music / George List -- Folk dance / Joann Wheeler Kealiinohomoku -- Fieldwork : collecting oral literature / Donald A. Macdonald -- Fieldwork : recording material culture / Warren E. Roberts --

Fieldwork : recording traditional music / George List -- Archiving / George List -- The use of printed sources / Richard M. Dorson -- Folk atlas mapping / Robert Wildhaber -- The use of artifacts and folk art in the folk museum / J. Geraint Jenkins -- The cultural geographer and folklife research / E. Estyn Evans.