Folk Groups And Folklore Genres Reader
A Reader
Will be published approx. on 1. May 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
394 pages
978-0-87421-140-5 (ISBN)
Description
Compiled to accompany the best-selling textbook, Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction, the selections in this anthology extend the discussion in diverse directions, alert the reader to new problems, and introduce alternative perspectives. The essays include folklore classics and recent works, and are organized in sections that correspond to the chapter headings in An Introduction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Logan
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Freshman and over, Interest Age: From 18 to 99 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87421-140-5 (9780874211405)
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Elliott Oring is professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles and a visiting research scholar in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, and has received the American Folklore Society Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award; the International Society for Humor Studies Lifetime Achievement Award for Scholarship, Research, and the Advancement of Humor Studies; and the Rebecca and Gene Stirling Award for Contributions to Psychological Anthropology. He has written extensively about folklore, humor, and cultural symbolism.