Interpreting Folklore..". Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore." -- Center for Southern Folklore Magazine "It is impossible ever to remain unimpressed with [Dundes'] excursuses, however much one may be in disagreement (or not) with his conclusions." -- Forum for Modern Language Studies Often controversial, Alan Dundes's scholarship is always provocative, perceptive, and intelligent. His concern here is to assess the material folklorists have so painstakingly amassed and classified, to interpret folklore, and to use folklore to increase our understanding of human nature and culture. |
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Page 42
... perhaps unconscious invocation of traditional mythology . And in mythology round the world , we find the most pressing problems of earthly bodies projected onto heavenly bodies . In this light , constellations and their names in ...
... perhaps unconscious invocation of traditional mythology . And in mythology round the world , we find the most pressing problems of earthly bodies projected onto heavenly bodies . In this light , constellations and their names in ...
Page 163
... perhaps a bit more obvious than some of the others I shall discuss . If prediction of the sex of unborn children is not really neutral , what about the custom of boy babies wearing blue and girl babies wearing pink ? Isn't that merely a ...
... perhaps a bit more obvious than some of the others I shall discuss . If prediction of the sex of unborn children is not really neutral , what about the custom of boy babies wearing blue and girl babies wearing pink ? Isn't that merely a ...
Page 228
... perhaps the outstanding representative of the denial of the historicity of Jesus in the twentieth century " ( McCown 1940 : 71 ) , attempted through tortuous reasoning to show that the sun god who dies in winter to rise again in the ...
... perhaps the outstanding representative of the denial of the historicity of Jesus in the twentieth century " ( McCown 1940 : 71 ) , attempted through tortuous reasoning to show that the sun god who dies in winter to rise again in the ...
Contents
Texture Text and Context | 20 |
The Curious Case of the Widemouth Frog | 62 |
A Folkloristic Reflection of | 69 |
Copyright | |
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