A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe.
* An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts
* Examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore
* Considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore
* Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
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Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem
Part I Concepts and Phenomena 7
Introduction: Concepts and Phenomena 9
Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem
1 The Social Base of Folklore 13
Dorothy Noyes
2 Tradition Without End 40
Francisco Vaz da Silva
3 The Poetics of Folklore 55
Amy Shuman and Galit Hasan-Rokem
4 Three Aspects of Oral Textuality 75
Peter Seitel
5 Performance 94
Richard Bauman
6 Myth-Ritual-Symbol 119
Hagar Salamon and Harvey E. Goldberg
7 Religious Practice 136
Sabina Magliocco
8 Work and Professions 154
Gertraud Koch
9 Material Culture 169
Orvar Löfgren
Part II Location 185
Introduction: Location 187
Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem
10 Translingual Folklore and Folklorics in China 190
Lydia H. Liu
11 Japan 211
Akiko Mori
12 India 234
Sadhana Naithani
13 Oceania 248
Phillip H. Mc Arthur
14 Folklore and Folklore Studies in Latin America 265
Fernando Fischman
15 Folklore Studies in the United States 286
Lee Haring and Regina F. Bendix
16 Dancing Around Folklore: Constructing a National Culture in Turkey 305
Arzu Öztürkmen
17 Folklore Studies In Israel 325
Dani Schrire and Galit Hasan-Rokem
18 Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) Literature 349
Ursula Baumgardt
19 From Volkskunde to the ‘Field of Many Names’: Folklore Studies in German-Speaking Europe Since 1945 364
Regina F. Bendix
20 Finland 391
Lauri Harvilahti
21 Ireland 409
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
22 Russia 426
Alexander Panchenko
Part III Reflection 443
Introduction: Reflection 445
Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem
23 Folklore and Literature 447
Cristina Bacchilega
24 Folklore and/in Music 464
Stephen D. Winick
25 Folklore and/on Film 483
Pauline Greenhill
26 Cultural Heritage 500
Valdimar T. Hafstein
27 Cultural Property 520
Martin Skrydstrup
28 Folklore: Legal and Constitutional Power 537
Alison Dundes Renteln
Part IV Practice 555
Introduction: Practice
Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 557
29 Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Writing: Approaches and Methods from the Perspective of Ethnological Analysis of the Present 559
Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber
30 Imagining Public Folklore 579
Debora Kodish
31 The Institutionalization of Folklore 598
Bjarne Rogan
Index 631
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Regina F. Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany.
Galit Hasan-Rokem is Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore, and Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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