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Pages: 473
Authors: Alan Dundes
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-21 - Publisher: Utah State University Press

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The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their i
A Dictionary of English Folklore
Language: en
Pages: 1046
Authors: Jacqueline Simpson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference
Folklore Concepts
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Dan Ben-Amos
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glass
Myth and Meaning
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: J. D. Lewis-Williams
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07 - Publisher: Routledge

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J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, uses ethnographic, archival, and archaeological lines of research to und
The Dynamics of Folklore
Language: en
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Authors: Barre Toelken
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-01 - Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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One of the most comprehensive and widely praised introductions to folklore ever written. Toelken's discussion of the history and meaning of folklore is delivere