Every Man His Way: Readings in Cultural Anthropology

Politics & Social Sciences

Dundes, Alan

Anthropology

PRENTICE/HALL

Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abrahams, and many others.Readers cannot help coming away from this book with a new appreciation of the nature and richness of African American folklore. For those with little or no previous knowledge of this heterogeneous and spellbinding lore Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel will be an eye-opening encounter.Drawn out of the deep, rich well of African American culture, these essays convey the import of the black folk experience for all Americans. No library or individual with a serious interest in African American folklore should fail to own this remarkable anthology.

Mother wit from the laughing barrel;: Readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore

Social Sciences

Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abrahams, and many others.
Readers cannot help coming away from this book with a new appreciation of the nature and richness of African American folklore. For those with little or no previous knowledge of this heterogeneous and spellbinding lore Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel will be an eye-opening encounter.
Drawn out of the deep, rich well of African American culture, these essays convey the import of the black folk experience for all Americans. No library or individual with a serious interest in African American folklore should fail to own this remarkable anthology.

Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore

Columbia Univ. Pr.

"... Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore." â€”Center for Southern Folklore Magazine"It is impossible ever to remain unimpressed with [Dundes'] excursuses, however much one may be in disagreement (or not) with his conclusions." â€”Forum for Modern Language StudiesOften controversial, Alan Dundes's scholarship is always provocative, perceptive, and intelligent. His concern here is to assess the material folklorists have so painstakingly amassed and classified, to interpret folklore, and to use folklore to increase our understanding of human nature and culture.

Interpreting Folklore

Indiana Univ. Pr

Work Hard and You Shall be Rewarded: Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire (paperback)

Work hard and you shall be rewarded: Urban folklore from the paperwork empire

Business & Money

Economics

Indiana University Press

The Wandering Jew: Essays in the interpretation of a Christian legend

Hasan-Rokem, Galit

Austin 1975 Second Printing. 8vo., 223pp. VG in VG DJ.

Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

Literature & Fiction

American Folklore

Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist

In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes’ work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children’s games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

University of Wisconsin Press

In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes' work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children's games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth.

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Every Man His Way: Readings in Cultural Anthropology

Mother wit from the laughing barrel;: Readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore

Mother wit from the laughing barrel;: Readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore

Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore

Interpreting Folklore

Work hard and you shall be rewarded: Urban folklore from the paperwork empire

The Wandering Jew: Essays in the interpretation of a Christian legend

Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist

Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist