Dan Ben-Amos & Kenneth S. Goldstein 
Folklore [PDF ebook] 
Performance and Communication

Frontmatter – CONTENTS – INTRODUCTION – I. PERFORMANCE – BREAKTHROUGH INTO PERFORMANCE – ORAL SERMONS AND ORAL NARRATIVE – II. PERFORMANCE AND COMMUNICATION – A PARABLE IN CONTEXT: A SOCIAL INTERACTIONAL ANALYSIS OF STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE – FILIPINO-AMERICAN EROTICA AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF A FOLKLORIC EVENT – THE TALE-SINGER AND HIS AUDIENCE – III. TRANSMISSION AND COMMUNICATION – THE HYPOTHESIS OF MULTI-CONDUIT TRANSMISSION IN FOLKLORE – IV. COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF FOLKLORIC COMMUNICATION – QUAKER FOLK-LINGUISTICS AND FOLKLORE – FOLKLORE, WORLDVIEW, AND COMMUNICATION – FOLKLORE AND COMMUNICATION ON ST. VINCENT – INDEX – Backmatter