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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