| Acknowledgements |
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| Chronological Table of reprinted chapters and articles |
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| General Introduction |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (2) |
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Folklore: materials, science, art |
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3 | (7) |
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The idea of folklore: an essay |
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10 | (7) |
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The scope of regional ethnology |
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17 | (12) |
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The quintessence of the problem: nomenclature and subject matter of folklore |
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29 | (14) |
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Folkloristics: the science about tradition and society |
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43 | (10) |
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53 | (4) |
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The folk and their culture: the formative concepts and the beginnings of folklore |
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57 | (23) |
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Concepts about folklore in Latin America and the United States |
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80 | (16) |
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Theoretic trends in the Argentine folklore |
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96 | (9) |
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The concept of folklore in India and Pakistan |
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105 | (6) |
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The theory of folklore in Greece: Laographia in its contemporary perspective |
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111 | (17) |
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The Irish Folklore Commission: achievement and legacy |
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128 | (17) |
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A hundred years of Finnish folklore research: a reappraisal |
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145 | (13) |
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Creating disciplinary identities: the professionalization of Swedish folklife studies |
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158 | (17) |
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The problem of the notion of Soviet folklore |
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175 | (19) |
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Folklore as a political tool in Nazi Germany |
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194 | (17) |
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Coming to terms with the past: the depiction of Volkskunde in the Third Reich since 1945 |
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211 | (27) |
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Change of name as a change of paradigm: the renaming of folklore studies departments at German universities as an attempt at ``denationalization'' |
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238 | (23) |
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The relationship of orientalism to Palestinian folklore |
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261 | (20) |
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281 | (9) |
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Diverging paths in the scientific search for authenticity |
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290 | (29) |
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319 | (20) |
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The legal protection of works of folklore |
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339 | (8) |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (3) |
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Herder, folklore and romantic nationalism |
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4 | (18) |
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Once there were two brothers named Grimm: a reintroduction |
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22 | (28) |
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Grimm and Grundtvig: a footnote |
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50 | (8) |
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The forsaken founder, William John Thoms: from antiquities to folklore |
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58 | (8) |
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Folklore beginnings in France: the Academie Celtique 1804--1813 |
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66 | (10) |
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The practical use of folk lore: an interview with Mr. G. Laurence Gomme |
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76 | (4) |
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The creditable Max Muller |
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80 | (31) |
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Wilhelm Mannhardt -- a pioneer in the study of rituals |
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111 | (10) |
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Life under The Golden Bough |
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121 | (6) |
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Giuseppe Pitre and Sicilian folk-lore |
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127 | (8) |
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Primus inter pares: why was Vuk Karadzic the most influential folklore scholar in Southeastern Europe in the nineteenth century? |
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135 | (14) |
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The credibility of Oskar Kolberg's ethnomusicological collection: a contribution to the problem of historical criticism |
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149 | (17) |
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An unsung hero: Krisjanis Barons and his lifework in Latvian folk songs |
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166 | (16) |
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Evald Tang Kristensen, a Danish folklorist |
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182 | (21) |
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203 | (5) |
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Bartok as folklorist: his place in the history of research |
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208 | (11) |
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Arnold van Gennep: structuralist and apologist for the study of folklore in France |
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219 | (13) |
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Jan de Vries: Netherland's foremost folklorist (1890--1964) |
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232 | (11) |
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A ``postcolonial'' look at Kunio Yanagita, the founding father of Japanese folklore studies |
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243 | (20) |
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Vladimir Propp: an evaluation on his seventieth birthday |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (3) |
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Folkloristic theories of genre |
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4 | (22) |
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An approach to a context-oriented genre theory in application to the history of the ballad: traditional ballad--street ballad--literary ballad |
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26 | (37) |
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Definitions of folk dance: some explorations |
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63 | (17) |
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``Proverbs bring it to light'': modern paremiology in retrospect and prospect |
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80 | (27) |
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107 | (33) |
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Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj |
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Chew-Hallaw and Buckalee: a comparative study of some bird-scaring and herding rhymes |
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140 | (23) |
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Superstition and popular religion in Western societies |
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163 | (15) |
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The rites of passage revisited: a new look at van Gennep's theory of the ritual process and its application in the study of Finnish--Karelian wedding rituals |
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178 | (34) |
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In defense of mythology: the history of modern theories of myth |
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212 | (43) |
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255 | (13) |
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Do the legends of today and yesterday belong to the same genre? |
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268 | (10) |
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The Caso: an emic genre of folk narrative |
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278 | (28) |
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Does the epic exist in Africa? Some formal considerations |
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306 | (26) |
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Traditional male combat: from game to war |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (5) |
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Folk lore: how it arose, and what it means |
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6 | (16) |
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22 | (17) |
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39 | (11) |
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On the method of determining the value of folklore as ethnological data |
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50 | (35) |
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Frazer on myth and ritual |
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85 | (20) |
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Why and how do we collect folk music? |
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105 | (16) |
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Monsieur Sebillot's scheme for the collection and classification of folk-lore |
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121 | (5) |
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In correspondence with tradition: the role of the postal questionnaire in the collection of Irish folklore |
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126 | (13) |
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Cultural boundaries and the ethnographic map |
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139 | (17) |
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156 | (17) |
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Folklore as a special form of creativity |
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173 | (13) |
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Poetics in the lions' den: the circus act as text |
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186 | (10) |
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The concept of motif in folklore |
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196 | (29) |
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225 | (22) |
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Type- and motif-indices 1980--1995: an inventory |
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247 | (18) |
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Problems of the type in the comparative study of proverbs |
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265 | (17) |
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A note on the typology of ploughing implements |
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282 | (8) |
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The historic-geographic method: past and future |
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290 | (17) |
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The special forms of Aarne-Thompson Type 480 and their distribution |
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307 | (19) |
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Tell it to the walls: tales about tales |
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326 | (24) |
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The Enzyklopadie des Marchens |
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350 | (12) |
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The International Folklore Bibliography |
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362 | (8) |
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Geologists and folklorists: cultural evolution and ``the science of folklore'' |
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370 | (24) |
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The devolutionary premise in folklore theory |
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394 | (13) |
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Biological metaphors in folklore theory: an essay in the history of ideas |
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407 | (29) |
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Folklore as an ethnographic source: a ``mise au point'' |
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436 | (16) |
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Antonio Gramsci's contribution to Italian folklore studies |
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452 | (10) |
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Folklore, legends, and sexuality education |
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462 | (15) |
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| Index |
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