American folklore scholarship : a dialogue of dissent
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American folklore scholarship : a dialogue of dissent
（Folkloristics）
Indiana University Press, c1988
- pbk.
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Bibliography: p. 152-179
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in their introductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the book before their qualifying exams."
-Folklore Forum
". . . a welcome overview of the discipline in North America and the practitioners who established it."
-American Anthropologist
In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the split between literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked at literary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture of the people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Alan Dundes
Preface
1. Discipline and Identity
2. American Folklore Studies: Field and Scope
3. The Schism in Folklore
4. Literary Folklorists
5. The Anthropological Folklorists
6. Approaches to Folklore: The Literary and the Anthropological
7. Remnants of the past in the present: Conflict in Contemporary Folklore Theory
Notes
Archival Sources
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
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