Meaning of Folklore [electronic resource] : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes / edited and introduced by Simon J. Bronner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Folklore as a mirror of culture -- The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation -- Metafolkore and oral literary criticism -- From etic to emic units in the structural study of folktales ; postscript, the motif index and the tale-type index: a critique -- How Indic parallels to the ballad of the "walled-up wife" reveal the pitfalls of parochial nationalistic folkloristics -- Structuralism and folklore ; postscript, binary opposition in myth: the Propp/Levi Strauss debate in retrospect -- On game morphology: a study of the structure of non-verbal folklore -- The devolutionary premise in folklore theory -- Folk ideas as units of worldview ; postscript, worldview in folk narrative -- As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech -- Much ado about "sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech -- Grouping lore--scientists and musicians: science in folklore--folklore in science? ; viola jokes--a study of second string humor -- Medical speech and professional identity--the Gomer--a figure of American hospital folk speech ; "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras"--a folk medical diagnostic proverb -- Getting the folk and the lore together -- Gallus as phallus: a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play -- The symbolic equivalence of allomotifs: towards a method of analyzing folktales -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male ; postscript, madness in method plus a plea for projective inversion in myth -- Theses on feces: scatological analysis--the folklore of wishing wells ; here I sit--a study of American latrinalia ; the kushmaker -- The ritual murder or blood libel legend: a study of anti-Semitic victimization through projective inversion -- On the psychology of collecting folklore ; postscript, chain letter--a folk geometric progression.

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