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the analytical essays of Alan Dundes

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The meaning of folklore: the analytical essays of Alan Dundes
2007, Utah State University Press
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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
October 31, 2007, Utah State University Press
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Table of Contents

Folklore as a mirror of culture
The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation
Metafolkore and oral literary criticism
From etic to emic units in the structural study of folktales ; postscript, the motif index and the tale-type index: a critique
How Indic parallels to the ballad of the "walled-up wife" reveal the pitfalls of parochial nationalistic folkloristics
Structuralism and folklore ; postscript, binary opposition in myth: the Propp/Lévi Strauss debate in retrospect
On game morphology: a study of the structure of non-verbal folklore
The devolutionary premise in folklore theory
Folk ideas as units of worldview ; postscript, worldview in folk narrative
As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech
Much ado about "sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech
Grouping lore
scientists and musicians: science in folklore
folklore in science? ; viola jokes
a study of second string humor
Medical speech and professional identity
the Gomer
a figure of American hospital folk speech ; "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras"
a folk medical diagnostic proverb
Getting the folk and the lore together
Gallus as phallus: a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play
The symbolic equivalence of allomotifs: towards a method of analyzing folktales
Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male ; postscript, madness in method plus a plea for projective inversion in myth
Theses on feces: scatological analysis
the folklore of wishing wells ; here I sit
a study of American latrinalia ; the kushmaker
The ritual murder or blood libel legend: a study of anti-Semitic victimization through projective inversion
On the psychology of collecting folklore ; postscript, chain letter
a folk geometric progression.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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398.2
Library of Congress
GR71 .D88 2007, GR71

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xv, 443 p. :
Number of pages
443

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OL22802322M
Internet Archive
meaningfolklorea00dund
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9780874216837, 9780874216844
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2007033333
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2253544

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