This anthology of regional folklore displays the abundance, humor, and continuing vigor of the American oral tradition. The collection explores rich and distinctive lore of Maine Down-Easters, Pennsylvania Dutchmen, Southern mountaineers, Louisiana Cajuns, Illinois Egyptians, Southwest Mexicans, and Utah Mormons. Their tales, songs, riddles, proverbs, games, superstitions, and customs provide a wealth of living folklore presented here as it was recorded in the field. And this unvarnished folklore fact—retains the spicy flavor of authentic narrative, told in the vernacular of the skillful folk storyteller.

Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States

Politics & Social Sciences

Dorson, Richard Mercer

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

1968-1st Univ of chicago. 8vo., 518pp., photo illus., index. Fine in Good DJ.

British Folklorists: A History

Univ of Chicago Pr

The word "folklore" was coined in 1846 by an English antiquary, William John Thoms, although Professor Dorson's intellectual history of the folklore movement shows that the study of folklore had its origins in an earlier period. Educated men and women in many fields, especially in Victorian times, succumbed to the fascination of noting curious tales and odd rituals both at home and abroad. The British Folklorists describes how the influence of folklore extended into many fields such as literature, history, the classics, archaeology, philology, psychical research, legal and medical antiquities, Scandinavian, Germanic, and Celtic studies, and the history of religions. Interest in the collection of folklore was carried to the far corners of the British Empire by colonial administrators, missionaries, and military officers, who found that a knowledge of local folklore helped them understand the strangers they lived among.Professor Dorson traces the historical development of folklore as a field of learning, beginning with sixteenth-century antiquarians whose studies encompassed the preservation of local customs and reaching its climax with the "Great Team" of Andrew Lang and his co-workers from the 1870's to the First World War.

Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists

Chicago : University of Chicago Press

ESSAYS DISCUSSING TECHNIQUES WITH WHICH THE HISTORICAL SCHOLAR MUST BE FAMILIAR WITH WHEN USING FOLK SOURCES

American Folklore and the Historian

Folklore: selected essays

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Indiana University Press

Essays discuss topics of research in American folklore, and the interpretations, methods, and presentation of that research

Handbook of American Folklore

Indiana Univ. Pr

Peasant customs and savage myths: Selections from the British folklorists;

Routledge & K.Paul

Delightfully illustrated, this collection of Japanese myths and fairy tales presents readers with a rich folk tradition. Folk Legends of Japan contains of over one hundred Japanese folk legends. These have been selected by a distinguished American folklorist, drawn from expert Japanese transcriptions of oral legends, and carefully translated in such a way as to bring out the charming, unadorned, and sometimes disarmingly frank folk quality of the originals. Each legend is carefully annotated for the student, scholar, and a full bibliography is provided. Fortunately, the scholarly attributes of the book are now allowed to intrude between the general reader and his enjoyment of the legends themselves. Anyone who loves a genuine old wives' tales, who savors firelit evenings of listening to the folk stories will find much pleasure in these Japanese stories. At the same time the folklorist will find a mine of information, and the Japanophile will discover the folk basis for many of the beliefs and customs that may have puzzled him in the past.

Folk Legends of Japan

Tuttle Pub

Folklore today: A Festschrift for Richard M. Dorson

Dégh, Linda

Oinas, Felix J.

Glassie, Henry H.

Indiana

Indiana University, Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies

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