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Folklore and fakelore : essays toward a discipline of folk studies / Richard M. Dorson.
- Title
- Folklore and fakelore : essays toward a discipline of folk studies / Richard M. Dorson.
- Author
- Dorson, Richard Mercer, 1916-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1976.
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Details
- Description
- x, 391 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Folklore
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 367-377.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 76-2318
- ISBN
- 0674307151
- LCCN
- 75030734
- OCLC
- 2177879
- NYPG764490961-B
- Author
- Dorson, Richard Mercer, 1916-
- Title
- Folklore and fakelore : essays toward a discipline of folk studies / Richard M. Dorson.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1976.
- Bibliography
- Bibliography: p. 367-377.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 76-2318