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001 2007033333
003 DLC
005 20090828085124.0
008 070814s2007 utua b 011 0 eng
010 $a 2007033333
020 $a9780874216837 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780874216844 ( ebook)
035 $a(OCoLC)165957291
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn165957291
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBAKER$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dIXA$dVVC$dJYJ$dDLC
050 00 $aGR71$b.D88 2007
082 00 $a398.2$222
100 1 $aDundes, Alan.
245 14 $aThe meaning of folklore :$bthe analytical essays of Alan Dundes /$cedited and introduced by Simon J. Bronner.
260 $aLogan :$bUtah State University Press,$cc2007.
300 $axv, 443 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aFolklore 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.
650 0 $aFolklore.
600 10 $aDundes, Alan.
700 1 $aBronner, Simon J.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0903/2007033333.html