Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem
Part I Concepts and Phenomena 7
Introduction: Concepts and Phenomena 9
Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem
1 The Social Base of Folklore 13
Dorothy Noyes
2 Tradition Without End 40
Francisco Vaz da Silva
3 The Poetics of Folklore 55
Amy Shuman and Galit Hasan-Rokem
4 Three Aspects of Oral Textuality 75
Peter Seitel
5 Performance 94
Richard Bauman
6 Myth-Ritual-Symbol 119
Hagar Salamon and Harvey E. Goldberg
7 Religious Practice 136
Sabina Magliocco
8 Work and Professions 154
Gertraud Koch
9 Material Culture 169
Orvar Löfgren
Part II Location 185
Introduction: Location 187
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10 Translingual Folklore and Folklorics in China 190
Lydia H. Liu
11 Japan 211
Akiko Mori
12 India 234
Sadhana Naithani
13 Oceania 248
Phillip H. McArthur
14 Folklore and Folklore Studies in Latin America 265
Fernando Fischman
15 Folklore Studies in the United States 286
Lee Haring and Regina F. Bendix
16 Dancing Around Folklore: Constructing a National Culture in
Turkey 305
Arzu Öztürkmen
17 Folklore Studies in Israel 325
Dani Schrire and Galit Hasan-Rokem
18 Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) Literature 349
Ursula Baumgardt
19 From Volkskunde to the “Field of Many Names”:
Folklore Studies in German-Speaking Europe Since 1945 364
Regina F. Bendix
20 Finland 391
Lauri Harvilahti
21 Ireland 409
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
22 Russia 426
Alexander Panchenko
Part III Reflection 443
Introduction: Reflection 445
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23 Folklore and Literature 447
Cristina Bacchilega
24 Folklore and/in Music 464
Stephen D. Winick
25 Folklore and/on Film 483
Pauline Greenhill
26 Cultural Heritage 500
Valdimar T. Hafstein
27 Cultural Property 520
Martin Skrydstrup
28 Folklore: Legal and Constitutional Power 537
Alison Dundes Renteln
Part IV Practice 555
Introduction: Practice 557
Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem
29 Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Writing: Approaches and Methods
from the Perspective of Ethnological Analysis of the Present
559
Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber
30 Imagining Public Folklore 579
Debora Kodish
31 The Institutionalization of Folklore 598
Bjarne Rogan
Index 631
Regina Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/EuropeanEthnology at Georg-August-University in Gottingen, Germany.She is the author of In Search of Authenticity, and hasco-edited Pradikat Heritage (with Dorothee Hemme andMarkus Tauschek), Cultural Property: Forschungsperspektiven(with Kilian Bizer and Stefan Groth), and Culture andProperty (Special Issue of Ethnologia Europaea, co-edited withValdimar Hafstein). Galit Hasan-Rokem is Max and Margarethe GrunwaldProfessor of Folklore, and Professor of Hebrew Literature at theMandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University ofJerusalem. She is the author of Web of Life: Folklore andMidrash in Rabbinic Literature, and Tales of theNeighborhood: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity. Sheis a published poet in Hebrew and translation and has co-editedThe Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to thePresent: A Bilingual Anthology (with Shirley Kaufman and TamarHess).
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