Frontmatter — Acknowledgments — Foreword — Contents — Preface — Section One: Folklore Theory And Method — 1. The American Concept Of Folklore — 2. The Devolutionary Premise In Folklore Theory — 3. The Study Of Folklore In Literature And Culture: Identification And Interpretation — 4. Proverbs And The Ethnography Of Speaking Folklore — 5. Metafolklore And Oral Literary Criticism — Section Two: Structural Analysis Of Folklore — 6. From Etic To Emic Units In The Structural Study Of Folktales — 7. Structural Typology In North American Indian Folktales — 8. On Game Morphology: A Study Of The Structure Of Non-Verbal Folklore — 9. The Structure Of Superstition — 10. Toward A Structural Definition Of The Riddle — 11. On The Structure Of The Proverb — Section Three: The Psychoanalytic Approach — 12. On The Psychology Of Collecting Folklore — 13. Earth-Diver: Creation Of The Mythopoeic Male — 14. Summoning Deity Through Ritual Fasting — 15. The Father, The Son, And The Holy Grail — 16. On The Psychology Of Legend — Section Four: The Analysis Of American Folklore — 17. Here I Sit – A Study Of American Latrinalia — 18. On Elephantasy And Elephanticide — 19. The Number Three In American Culture — 20. Thinking Ahead: A Folkloristic Reflection Of The Future Orientation In American Worldview — Bibliography — Index — Backmatter