A Companion to Folklore (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bendix, Regina F.; Hasan-Rokem, Galit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. * An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts * Examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore * Considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore * Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444354386
• Artikelnr.: 37756973

Autorenporträt

Regina F. Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany. Galit Hasan-Rokem is Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore, and Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Regina F. Bendix and Galit
Hasan-Rokem Part I Concepts and Phenomena 7 Introduction: Concepts and
Phenomena 9 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 1 The Social Base of
Folklore 13 Dorothy Noyes 2 Tradition Without End 40 Francisco Vaz da Silva
3 The Poetics of Folklore 55 Amy Shuman and Galit Hasan-Rokem 4 Three
Aspects of Oral Textuality 75 Peter Seitel 5 Performance 94 Richard Bauman
6 Myth-Ritual-Symbol 119 Hagar Salamon and Harvey E. Goldberg 7 Religious
Practice 136 Sabina Magliocco 8 Work and Professions 154 Gertraud Koch 9
Material Culture 169 Orvar Löfgren Part II Location 185 Introduction:
Location 187 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 10 Translingual
Folklore and Folklorics in China 190 Lydia H. Liu 11 Japan 211 Akiko Mori
12 India 234 Sadhana Naithani 13 Oceania 248 Phillip H. McArthur 14
Folklore and Folklore Studies in Latin America 265 Fernando Fischman 15
Folklore Studies in the United States 286 Lee Haring and Regina F. Bendix
16 Dancing Around Folklore: Constructing a National Culture in Turkey 305
Arzu Öztürkmen 17 Folklore Studies In Israel 325 Dani Schrire and Galit
Hasan-Rokem 18 Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) Literature 349 Ursula
Baumgardt 19 From Volkskunde to the "Field of Many Names": Folklore Studies
in German-Speaking Europe Since 1945 364 Regina F. Bendix 20 Finland 391
Lauri Harvilahti 21 Ireland 409 Diarmuid Ó Giolláin 22 Russia 426 Alexander
Panchenko Part III Reflection 443 Introduction: Reflection 445 Regina F.
Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 23 Folklore and Literature 447 Cristina
Bacchilega 24 Folklore and/in Music 464 Stephen D. Winick 25 Folklore
and/on Film 483 Pauline Greenhill 26 Cultural Heritage 500 Valdimar T.
Hafstein 27 Cultural Property 520 Martin Skrydstrup 28 Folklore: Legal and
Constitutional Power 537 Alison Dundes Renteln Part IV Practice 555
Introduction: Practice Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 557 29
Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Writing: Approaches and Methods from the
Perspective of Ethnological Analysis of the Present 559 Brigitta
Schmidt-Lauber 30 Imagining Public Folklore 579 Debora Kodish 31 The
Institutionalization of Folklore 598 Bjarne Rogan Index 631

Rezensionen

"This 660-page anthology is important, containing thirty-six essays by thirty-three scholars, who represent different countries and approaches to the study of folklore." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 March 2014)

"A Companion to Folkloreis nothing if not international, and this quality alone distinguishes it from most earlier reference works and makes it an important resource for the field." (Western Folklore, 1 May 2013