Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music and Art

✍ Scribed by Thomas A. Green

Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 928
Edition: two-volume reference ed
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Folklore emphasizes those bodies of North American and European scholarship that have influenced each other most profoundly since the discipline's inception. The entries provide an introduction that facilitates the pursuit of more specialized topics and other bodies of scholarship.

Topics range from such traditional subjects as ''festival'' and ''folktale'' to cutting-edge entries such as ''computer-mediated folklore'' and ''postmodernism.'' In most cases, a longer, more comprehensive essay format for entries has been favored over shorter entries. Entries are cross-referenced, and each includes a select bibliography to serve as a guide to in depth research.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
ADVISORY BOARD......Page 5
CONTRIBUTORS LIST......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 11
PREFACE......Page 17
A - H......Page 23
I - Z......Page 493

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