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