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Folklore and folklife : an introduction
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Folklore and folklife : an introduction

Author: Richard M Dorson
Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1982, ©1972.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Paperback edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard M Dorson
ISBN: 0226158713 9780226158716 0226158705 9780226158709
OCLC Number: 77142185
Description: x, 561 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Preface ; Concepts of folklore and folklife studies / Richard M. Dorson --
Folk narrative / Linda Dégh --
Narrative folk poetry / W. Edson Richmond --
Folk epic / Felix J. Oinas --
Proverbs and proverbial expressions / Roger D. Abrahams --
Riddles / Roger D. Abrahams and Alan Dundes --
Folk speech / W. Edson Richmond --
Festivals and celebrations / Robert J. Smith --
Recreations and games / Robert A. Georges / Folk medicine / Don Yoder --
Folk religion / John C. Messenger --
Folk crafts / Warren E. Roberts --
Folk art / Henry Glassie --
Folk architecture / Warren E. Roberts --
Folk costume ; Folk Cookery / Don Yoder --
Folk drama / Roger D. Abrahams --
Folk music / George List --
Folk dance / Joann Wheeler Kealiinohomoku --
Fieldwork : collecting oral literature / Donald A. Macdonald --
Fieldwork : recording material culture / Warren E. Roberts --
Fieldwork : recording traditional music / George List --
Archiving / George List --
The use of printed sources / Richard M. Dorson --
Folk atlas mapping / Robert Wildhaber --
The use of artifacts and folk art in the folk museum / J. Geraint Jenkins --
The cultural geographer and folklife research / E. Estyn Evans.
Responsibility: edited by Richard M. Dorson.

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