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Available
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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. Show Less
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
xii, 172 p.; 23 cm
ISBN
0870496085 / 9780870496080
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NT