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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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Book/textUse in library JFE 76-2318Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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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
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