Research Catalog

Title

Toward new perspectives in folklore / edited by Américo Paredes and Richard Bauman.

Publication

Bloomington, IN : Trickster, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Paredes, Américo
• Bauman, Richard

Description

xxi, 232 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Folklore
• Communication in folklore

Note

• "With a new preface."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Toward a definition of folklore in context / Dan Ben-Amos -- Personal power and social restraint in the definition of folklore / Roger D. Abrahams -- Differential identity and the social base of folklore / Richard Bauman -- The contribution of folklore to sociolinguistic research / Dell Hymes -- Theory and practice of riddle analysis / Elli Köngäs Maranda -- On the application of the concepts of active and inactive traditions to the study of repertory / Kenneth S. Goldstein -- The structure of esthetic response / Robert Jerome Smith -- The expressive profile / Brian Sutton-Smith -- Folk ideas as units of world view / Allan Dundes -- Serial order in Nez Perce ́myths / Brian Stross -- On the translation of style in oral narrative / Dennis Tedlock -- Concerning the "historical" and the "local" legend and their relatives / Heda Jason -- Chamula genres of verbal behavior / Gary H. Gossen

ISBN

091530547X

LCCN

^^^00134423^

OCLC

• 47186278
• SCSB-11663322

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library