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  • Folklore Matters

    by Alan Dundes ...
    “… not a large book, but that makes all the more admirable the way the author succeeds in doing justice to so many of the most important subjects in folkloristics. This book is a key work, and should be made compulsory reading in every university in which folkloristics is studied.”—Jon Hnefill Aoalsteinsson, Asian Folklore Studies“With this book Alan Dundes has once again demonstrated what a ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cracking Jokes: Studies of Sick Humor Cycles & Stereotypes

    by Alan Dundes ...
    Insightful, surprising, controversial and thought-provoking analyses of the jokes that have been told for years... now in its 30th Anniversary Edition."No piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something -- even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be. In fact, it usually is essential that the joke's meaning not be crystal clear. If ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing

    Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

    Series series Humor in Life and Letters
    Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace.Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace. Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter have collected more than two hundred and fifty "signs of the times"—the office memoranda, parodies, cartoons, and poems that daily make their way through ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded

    Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

    Series series Humor in Life and Letters
    Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection.Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are bound together by their unhappy ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Mary in the Mirror

    Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics

    by Alan Dundes ...
    Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms.Ever since Freud published his analysis of Jewish jokes in 1905 and his disciple Otto Rank followed with his groundbreaking The Myth of the Birth of the Hero in 1909, the psychoanalytic study of folklore has been an acknowledged part of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • From Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

    by Alan Dundes ...
    Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early disciples recognized the potential of such folklorist genres as myth, folktale, and legend to illuminate the intricate workings of the human psyche. Alan Dundes is a renowned folklorist who has ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Fables of the Ancients?

    Folklore in the Qur'an

    by Alan Dundes ...
    Given the widespread consensus that the Qur'an was in oral tradition before being committed to written form, it should come as no surprise to learn that the Qur'an still bears the traces of its original oral form. The field of knowledge most concerned with oral tradition is folkloristics, the study of folklore. Folklorist Alan Dundes has carefully and respectfully documented some of these ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • International Folkloristics

    Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore

    International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Folk Law

    Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta: Volume II

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1994, Folk Law, a comprehensive two-volme collection of essays, examines the meeting place of folklore - the unwritten law of obligations and prohibitions that are understood and passed on - and jurisprudence. The contributors explore the historical significance and implications of folk law, its continuing influence around the globe, and the conflicts that arise when folk ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Bloody Mary in the Mirror

    Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics

    by Alan Dundes ...
    Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms.Ever since Freud published his analysis of Jewish jokes in 1905 and his disciple Otto Rank followed with his groundbreaking The Myth of the Birth of the Hero in 1909, the psychoanalytic study of folklore has been an acknowledged part of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Raven and the Totem:

    Alaska Native Myths and Legends

    by John Smelcer ...
    This is a collection of Alaska Native folklore and mythology. All the various regions and tribal groups are represented in this collection. The collector is John Smelcer who is a writer, poet, and folklorist and who is himself a member of an Alaska Native tribe. Several of the stories are accompanied by illustrations by Larry Vienneau. This work was originally published in Alaska in 1992. This is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bloody Mary in the Mirror

    Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics

    by Alan Dundes ...
    Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms.Ever since Freud published his analysis of Jewish jokes in 1905 and his disciple Otto Rank followed with his groundbreaking The Myth of the Birth of the Hero in 1909, the psychoanalytic study of folklore has been an acknowledged part of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD