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Folklore and fakelore : essays toward a discipline of folk studies / Richard M. Dorson.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1976.Description: x, 391 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674307151
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398/.042
LOC classification:
  • GR20 .D67
Contents:
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.

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.

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