Overview :The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of... Read More
Overview :The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of... Read More
Overview :Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes ... Read More
Overview :Covering a period of more than one hundred years of work by renowned folklorists, these enlightening essays explore the timeless tale of Cin... Read More
Overview :Covering a period of more than one hundred years of work by renowned folklorists, these enlightening essays explore the timeless tale of Cin... Read More
Overview :... Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore... Read More
Overview :... Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore... Read More
Overview :Originating more than 2500 years ago, cockfighting is one of the oldest documented sports in the world. It has continued to flourish despite... Read More
Overview :Given the widespread consensus that the Qur'an was in oral tradition before being committed to written form, it should come as no surprise t... Read More
Overview :In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodolog... Read More
Overview :" ... not a large book, but that makes all the more admirable the way the author succeeds in doing justice to so many of the most important ... Read More
Overview : Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how i... Read More
Overview :Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This new volume br... Read More
Overview :A casebook of interpretations of the ballad The Walled-Up Wife. Some contributors offer competing nationalistic claims concerning the ballad... Read More
Overview :International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and leg... Read More