Contexts of Folklore

Preface and Acknowledgments - Simon J. Bronner / Wolfgang Mieder: Introduction: The Contexts of Dan Ben-Amos - Clover Jebsen Afokpa: Nondichao Bachalou, Museum Guide and Historian of Abomey, Benin - Haya Bar-Itzhak: The Truth of Fervent Desire: Stories About the Deaths of Jewish Cultural Heroes During the Holocaust - Richard Bauman: Signing at Cross-Purposes - Michael J. Bell: Stephen Dedalus Sings "Little Harry Hughes": Anti-Semitism as Folkloric Performance in James Joyce's Ulysses - Regina F. Bendix/Galit Hasan-Rokem: Israeli Political Humor: What Was There To Laugh About in 1967? - Charles L. Briggs: The Bodies of the Narrator - Gary Alan Fine/Stephanie Bliese/Christopher Robertson: The Jesus Movement as Folk Group - Ruth Finnegan: Performancing: The Enactor's Reality - Pekka Hakamies: The Concept of Equal Validity in Narratives of Soviet Experience in the Former Finnish Karelia - William Hansen: Trapping the Intruder: A Narrative Pattern in Homer's Odyssey - Lee Haring: A Creole Narrative Grammar - Frank J. Korom: Religious Nationalisms Compared: The Curious Cases of India and Serbia - Isaac Jack Levy/Rosemary Levy Zumwalt: Djuha at Home on the Isle of Rhodes, Italy, and in Georgia, United States - MD Abdullah al Mamum/Simon J. Bronner: A Quantitative Cross-Cultural Analysis of Folk Crafts in Relation to Foreign Aid in Developing Countries - Ulrich Marzolph: "Ceci n'est point une fable": Tale Type ATU 63, The Fox Rids Himself of Fleas, from Popular Tradition to Natural History (and Back Again) - Jay Mechling: Folklore and the Emotional Brain - Wolfgang Mieder: "Proverbs Are Worth a Thousand Words": The Global Spread of American Proverbs - Margaret A. Mills: Magic and Libel: Contexts for Muslim Memories of the Jewish Community of Herat, Afghanistan - Amos Noy: "Do You Want to Hear a Secret?": Secret-Telling as an Oral Genre - Dorothy Noyes: In Praise of Formalism: Teaching Samson's Riddles in a Diverse Classroom - Joseph Russo: Giuseppe Pitre's Sicilian Folktales: Text and Performance, Prose and Poetry - Jack Santino: The Vernacular Sacred - Amy Shuman: Tradition and Embodied Knowledge in an Artisan Community - UElo Valk: Folk Narrative Genres, Liminality and Epistemological Uncertainty - Stephen D. Winick: From Wheccumquek to Quink- Quankeo: "The Fals Fox," "The Fox and the Goose," and the Folk Ballad - Eli Yassif: From Ginzberg's Legends of the Bible to Ben-Amos's Folktales of the Jews: Towards a History of Jewish Folk Narratives and Its Study - Yael Zerubavel: The Shepherd, the Well, and the Jug: National Memory and Symbolic Bridges to Antiquity in Modern Hebrew Culture - Juwen Zhang: Motif as Symbol in Context - Jack Zipes: Waking Henry Iliowizi, Or, How Jews and Gentiles Have Something to Learn from the Dead.