Folklore and fakelore : essays toward a discipline of folk studies

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Folklore and fakelore : essays toward a discipline of folk studies

Richard M. Dorson

Harvard University Press, 1976

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Bibliography: p. 367-377

Index: p. 379-391

Contents of Works
  • 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
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