Folklore and fakelore : essays toward a discipline of folk studies / Richard M. Dorson.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1976.Description: x, 391 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0674307151
- 398/.042
- GR20 .D67
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 367-377.
Introduction: Folklore, academe, and the marketplace--The theoretical side of folklore: Folklore in the modern world. Mythology and folklore, a review essay. Is folklore a discipline?--The oral process: Oral literature, oral history, and the folklorist. Sources for the traditional history of the Scottish Highlands and Western Islands.--In the Field: Collecting in County Kerry. Tales of two lobstermen. Dialect stories of the Upper Peninsula.--Folk heroes of the Media: Comic Indian anecdotes. The career of John Henry. Paul Bunyan in the news.