Folklore and fakelore : essays toward a discipline of folk studies /

Main Author: Dorson, Richard Mercer, 1916-
Corporate Author: Harvard University Press
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Folklore, academe, and the marketplace
  • The theoretical side of folklore : Folklore in the modern world. Mythology and folklore, a review essay. Is folklore a discipline?
  • The oral process : Oral literature, oral history, and the folklorist. Sources for the traditional history of the Scottish Highlands and Western Islands
  • In the Field : Collecting in County Kerry. Tales of two lobstermen. Dialect stories of the Upper Peninsula
  • Folk heroes of the Media : Comic Indian anecdotes. The career of John Henry. Paul Bunyan in the news