Folklore matters

by Alan Dundes

Hardcover, 1989

Status

Available

Call number

398

Collection

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1989.

Description

Eight essays that show, by example, what folklore is and how it can be studied to gain insights into cultural patterns of worldview.

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LibraryThing member SugarPlumFairy
My favorite class in my entire college education was Anthro 160 with Professor Dundes. His class, and this book, really made me aware of all the non-sensical things in our culture that we blithely accept as normal just because they seem to ahve always been there. Want to know why "lightning never
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strikes twice", whether the Brothers Grimm had a bad relationship with their mother, and where a fool's errand came from? Prof Dundes is your man. I was so saddened to hear of his sudden death earlier this year.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

xii, 172 p.; 23 cm

ISBN

0870496085 / 9780870496080

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