A Companion to Folklore

by Bendix, Regina F.; Hasan-Rokem, Galit

• ISBN13: 9781405194990
• ISBN10: 1405194995
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Folklore offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of the human propensity to view folklore studies around the world as they are shaped by memory, current discourses, institutional practices, and ideologies. Top scholars will be enlisted to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, and this new companion will be an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, folklore, and public history.

Author Biography

Regina Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany. She is the author of In Search of Authenticity, and has co-edited Prädikat Heritage (with Dorothee Hemme and Markus Tauschek), Cultural Property: Forschungsperspektiven (with Kilian Bizer and Stefan Groth), and Culture and Property (Special Issue of Ethnologia Europaea, co-edited with Valdimar Hafstein).

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. She is the author of Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature, and Tales of the Neighborhood: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity. She is a published poet in Hebrew and translation and has co-edited The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology (with Shirley Kaufman and Tamar Hess).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Concepts and Phenomena	p. 7
Introduction: Concepts and Phenomena	p. 9
The Social Base of Folklore	p. 13
Tradition Without End	p. 40
The Poetics of Folklore	p. 55
Three Aspects of Oral Textuality	p. 75
Performance	p. 94
Myth-Ritual-Symbol	p. 119
Religious Practice	p. 136
Work and Professions	p. 154
Material Culture	p. 169
Location	p. 185
Introduction: Location	p. 187
Translingual Folklore and Folklorics in China	p. 190
Japan	p. 211
India	p. 234
Oceania	p. 248
Folklore and Folklore Studies in Latin America	p. 265
Folklore Studies in the United States	p. 286
Dancing Around Folklore: Constructing a National Culture in Turkey	p. 305
Folklore Studies In Israel	p. 325
Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) Literature	p. 349
From Volkshunde to the "Field of Many Names": Folklore Studies in German-Speaking Europe Since 1945	p. 364
Finland	p. 391
Ireland	p. 409
Russia	p. 426
Reflection	p. 443
Introduction: Reflection	p. 445
Folklore and Literature	p. 447
Folklore and/in Music	p. 464
Folklore and/on Film	p. 483
Cultural Heritage	p. 500
Cultural Property	p. 520
Folklore: Legal and Constitutional Power	p. 537
Practice	p. 555
Introduction: Practice	p. 557
Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Writing: Approaches and Methods from the Perspective of Ethnological Analysis of the Present	p. 559
Imagining Public Folklore	p. 579
The Institutionalization of Folklore	p. 598
Index	p. 631
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