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Folklore, An Encyclopedia Of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art, 2nd Edition

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  • ISBN-10: 1598842420
  • ISBN-13: 9781598842425
  • DDC: 398.03
  • Grade Level Range: 9th Grade - College Senior
  • 1177 Pages | eBook
  • Original Copyright 2010 | Published/Released March 2011
  • This publication's content originally published in print form: 2010

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Overview

Did you know that the tale of Cinderella is over 1,000 years old, and similar versions of this singular story exist in hundreds of cultures around the globe? Have you heard of "deathlore," a subgenre of folklore involving tombstones, coffins, cemeteries, and roadside memorial shrines? Did you realize that UFO sightings and cyber cultures constitute modern folklore? The broad field of folklore studies, developed over the past two centuries, provides significant insights into many aspects of human culture. While the term "folklore" conjures images of ancient practices and beliefs or folk heroes and traditional stories, it also applies to today's ever-changing cultural landscape. Even certain aspects of modern Internet-based popular culture and contemporary rites of passage represent folklore. This encyclopedia covers all the major genres of both ancient and contemporary folklore. This second edition adds more than 100 entries that examine the folklore practices of major ethnic groups, folk heroes, creatures of myth and legend, and emerging areas of interest in folklore studies.

Table of Contents

Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Entries.
About the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Foreword.
Standard Folklore Indices and Classifications.
1: Academic Programs in Folklore, International.
2: Academic Programs in Folklore, North American.
3: Acculturation.
4: Activism.
5: Aesthetics.
6: African American Folklore.
7: African Folklore.
8: Aging.
9: Altar, Home.
10: Amerasians: Folklores of Mixed Heritage, Mixed Race Asian Americans.
11: American Indian Folklore Scholarship.
12: American Indian Tales.
13: Anansi.
14: Anecdote.
15: Animals.
16: Animal Tale.
17: Anthropological Approach.
18: Anthropology, Symbolic.
19: Antiquarianism.
20: Appalachian Folklore.
21: Apparitions.
22: Applied Folklore/Folkloristics.
23: Arab Gulf States Folklore.
24: Arabian Nights.
25: Archetype.
26: Architecture, Folk.
27: Archives and Archiving.
28: Art, Folk.
29: Arthurian Lore.
30: Asian American Humor and Folklore.
31: Asian American Literature and Folklore.
32: Asian American Popular Culture and Folklore.
33: Assault, Supernatural.
34: Audience.
35: Authenticity.
36: Autograph Book.
37: Ballad.
38: Bard.
39: Beauty and the Beast.
40: Belief, Folk.
41: Belief Tale.
42: Bluegrass: Homegrown Music.
43: Borderlands Folklore.
44: Broadside Ballad.
45: Cantometrics.
46: Carnival.
47: Celtic Folklore and Mythology.
48: Chapbook.
49: Charivari/Shivaree.
50: Charm.
51: Childbirth and Childrearing.
52: Children's Folk Heroes.
53: Children's Folklore.
54: Chinese Folklore.
55: Choreometrics.
56: Cinderella.
57: Clever Question/Wisdom Question.
58: Communal Origins Theory.
59: Communitas.
60: Community-Based Research.
61: Comparative Mythology.
62: Computer-Mediated Folklore.
63: Conduit Theory/Multiconduit Theory.
64: Contestation.
65: Context.
66: Cosmology.
67: Costume, Folk.
68: Craft, Folk.
69: Creation Myths.
70: Cryptozoology.
71: Cultural Property.
72: Cultural Relativism.
73: Cultural Studies.
74: Culture Hero.
75: Custom.
76: Cyberculture.
77: Dance, Folk.
78: Deathlore.
79: Deconstruction.
80: Diachronic/Synchronic.
81: Dialogism.
82: Diffusion.
83: Dilemma Tales.
84: Discourse Analysis.
85: Dite.
86: Divination.
87: Drama, Folk.