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Toward new perspectives in folklore.
1972, Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press
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Table of Contents

Toward a definition of folklore in context, by D. Ben-Amos.
Personal power and social restraint in the definition of folklore, by R. D. Abrahams.
Differential identity and the social base of folklore, by R. Bauman.
The contribution of folklore to sociolinguistic research, by D. Hymes.
Theory and practice of riddle analysis, by E. K. Maranda.
On the application of the concepts of active and inactive traditions to the study of repertory, by K. S. Goldstein.
The structure of esthetic response, by R. J. Smith.
The expressive profile, by B. Sutton-Smith.
Folk ideas as units of world view, by A. Dundes.
Serial order in Nez Percé myths, by B. Stross.
On the translation of style in oral narrative, by D. Tedlock.
Concerning the "historical" and the "local" legend and their relatives, by H. Jason.
Chamula genres of verbal behavior, by G. H. Gossen.

Edition Notes

Published in
Austin
Series
Publications of the American Folklore Society., v. 23

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398/.042
Library of Congress
GR71 .P3, GR71.P3

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 181 p.
Number of pages
181

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5094283M
Internet Archive
towardnewperspec00pare
ISBN 10
029270142X
LCCN
74165922
OCLC/WorldCat
363928
Library Thing
743285
Goodreads
1372725

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