Frontiers Of Folklore
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Comparative Line
contemporary folklore research frontiers
cultural transmission theory
Dangerous Error
enactment-centered research
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ethnographic methodology
Fairy Tales
Final Unity
Folk Groups
Folklore Forms
folklore theories
folktales
Grimm Brothers
Historic Geographic Method
Magnetic Force
Military Demonstration
Mother's Village
Mother’s Village
Narrative Folklore
narrative performance analysis
Oral Narrative Performance
oral tradition studies
Paramount Reality
Professional Storyteller
social identity in folklore
South African Xhosa epics
Ultimate Reaction
Verbal Art Forms
Xhosa History
Product details
- ISBN 9780367020897
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 149 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Frontiers of Folklore explores some of the avenues of research that are exciting young folklorists today. In the introduction, William Bascom reviews briefly the development of folklore theories and suggests three frontiers of folklore that remain to he explored. Alan Bundes asks the question? “Who are the folk?†Pointing out that folklore exis
William R. Bascom is professor of anthropology and director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his publications are African Dilemma Tales ( Mouton, 1975) and Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa ( Indiana University Press, 1969), which was awarded The Giuseppe Pitre International Folklore Prize .
