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 170
... male chauvinistic sexual convention in which women are re- ferred to by men as a single part , usually the vagina , as in " bag , " " box , " " cunt , " " piece of ass . " The ghost's leaving a token of herself , a piece of clothing ...
... male chauvinistic sexual convention in which women are re- ferred to by men as a single part , usually the vagina , as in " bag , " " box , " " cunt , " " piece of ass . " The ghost's leaving a token of herself , a piece of clothing ...
Page 173
... male chauvinism didn't start in the United States either . Notions of male superiority are found in Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures . To a large extent American notions of sex roles and sex stereotypes are deriva- tive . Yet in ...
... male chauvinism didn't start in the United States either . Notions of male superiority are found in Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures . To a large extent American notions of sex roles and sex stereotypes are deriva- tive . Yet in ...
Page 209
... male , make it difficult to draw any other conclusion . Sexual acts carried out in thinly disguised symbolic form by , and directed towards , males and males only , would seem to con- stitute ritual homosexuality . Evidence from other ...
... male , make it difficult to draw any other conclusion . Sexual acts carried out in thinly disguised symbolic form by , and directed towards , males and males only , would seem to con- stitute ritual homosexuality . Evidence from other ...
Contents
Texture Text and Context | 20 |
The Curious Case of the Widemouth Frog | 62 |
A Folkloristic Reflection of | 69 |
Copyright | |
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