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Orings introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques. Since 1986, when it was first published, this book has met the need for good instructional material at a time of tremendous growth in folklore programs and introductory courses in colleges and universities around the world.
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Copyright 1986 Utah State University Press Logan, Utah 84322-7800 All rights reserved.
Second printing, February 1987 Third printing, December 1987 Fourth printing, January 1989 Fifth printing, May 1990 Sixth printing, December 1992 Seventh printing, December 1993 Eighth printing, January 1996
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Folk groups and folklore genres. Bibliography: p. 1. Folklore. 2. FolkloreUnited States. I. Oring, Elliott, 1945 GR66.F65 1986 398 86-15863 ISBN 0-87421-128-X
For Renee F. Oring, Lawrence H. Levinson, and other dedicated teachers
Table of Contents
Preface
ix
Chapter 1
On the Concepts of Folklore
1
Elliott Oring
Chapter 2
Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Folklore
23
Elliott Oring
Chapter 3
Religious Folklore
45
Larry Danielson
Chapter 4
Occupational Folklore
71
Robert McCarl
Chapter 5
Children's Folklore
91
Jay Mechling
Chapter 6
Folk Narratives
121
Elliott Oring
Chapter 7
Ballads and Folksongs
147
Barre Toelken
Chapter 8
Riddles and Proverbs
175
F. A. de Caro
Chapter 9
Folk Objects
199
Simon J. Bronner
Chapter 10
Documenting Folklore
225
William A. Wilson
Page viii
Figures
Figure 1.
Stone house; near Brigham City, Utah (Simon Bronner)
Figure 2.
Gravestone designs from eastern Massachusetts: top, death's head (1678); middle, winged cherub (1759); bottom, urn and willow ( 1822) (Drawing by Shirley Marquet)
Figure 3.
"Star Barn," a bank barn; Middletown, Pennsylvania (Simon Bronner)
Figure 4.
Converted mailboxes; near Malad, Idaho (Simon Bronner)
Earnest Bennett cutting into his chain; Indianapolis, Indiana (Simon Bronner)
Figure 7.
Folded paper objects: frog, football, airplane, and chain; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Simon Bronner)
Page ix
Preface
The past thirty years have witnessed a tremendous growth in the number of folklore programs and courses to be found in North American universities. There are sixteen degree-granting programs (several offering the Ph.D); another eighty institutions offer minors or concentrations in folklore, and over five hundred colleges and universities offer courses in folklore of some kind. An increasing proportion of these courses is being taught by graduates of folklore programs who hold folklore degrees.
The proliferation of folklore courses, particularly introductory courses, has not been matched by any similar increase in the variety of introductory books available for use in these courses. The introductory books published over the past twenty years have their own particular strengths and weaknesses. But because they have been few in number and because they have been large and formally structured textbooks, they have not, for the most part, provided the kind of curricular flexibility that many folklore instructors seem to desire. Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: AnIntroduction is not a textbook, nor is it meant to directly compete with the folklore textbooks currently available. It is intended to provide an alternative to the textbook approach to introductory instruction.
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