A companion to folklore /

A companion to folklore / edited by Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem. - Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. - 1 online resource (xv, 660 pages) : illustrations, 1 map. - Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 15 . - Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 15. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concepts and Phenomena: Introduction / The social base of folklore / Tradition without end / The poetics of folklore / Three aspects of oral textuality / Performance / Myth-ritual-symbol / Religious practice / Work and professions / Material culture / Location: Introduction: location / Translingual folklore and folklorics in China / Japan / India / Oceania / Folklore and folklore studies in Latin America / Folklore studies in the United States / Dancing around folklore: constructing a national culture in Turkey / Folklore studies In Israel / Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) literature / From Volkskunde to the "Field of many names": folklore studies in German-speaking Europe since 1945 / Finland / Ireland / Russia / Reflection. Introduction / Folklore and literature / Folklore and/in music / Folklore and/on film / Cultural heritage / Cultural property / Folklore: legal and constitutional power / Practice: Introduction / Seeing, hearing, feeling, writing: approaches and methods from the perspective of ethnological analysis of the present / Imagining public folklore / The institutionalization of folklore / Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem; Dorothy Noyes; Francisco Vaz da Silva; Amy Shuman and Galit Hasan-Rokem; Peter Seitel; Richard Bauman; Hagar Salamon and Harvey E Goldberg; Sabina Magliocco; Gertraud Koch; Orvar Löfgren -- Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem; Lydia H. Liu; Akiko Mori; Sadhana Naithani; Phillip H. McArthur; Fernando Fischman; Lee Haring and Regina F. Bendix; Arzu Oztïrkmen; Dani Schrire and Galit Hasan-Rokem; Ursula Baumgardt; Regina F. Bendix; Lauri Harvilahti; Diarmud O'Giollain; Alexander Panchenko -- Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem; Cristina Bacchilega; Stephen D. Winick; Pauline Greenhill; Valdimar T. Hafstein; Martin Skrydstrup; Alison Dundes Renteln -- Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem; Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber; Debora Kodish; Bjarne Rogan. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Part II. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Part III. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Part IV. 29. 30. 31.

"A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore, considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore."--

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Folklore--Study and teaching.
Folklore--Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore.
Folklore--Study and teaching.


Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies.

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