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"A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore, considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Concepts and Phenomena: Introduction / Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem; 1. The social base of folklore / Dorothy Noyes; 2. Tradition without end / Francisco Vaz da Silva; 3. The poetics of folklore / Amy Shuman and Galit Hasan-Rokem; 4. Three aspects of oral textuality / Peter Seitel; 5. Performance / Richard Bauman; 6. Myth-ritual-symbol / Hagar Salamon and Harvey E Goldberg; 7. Religious practice / Sabina Magliocco; 8. Work and professions / Gertraud Koch; 9. Material culture / Orvar Löfgren -- Part II. Location: Introduction: location / Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem; 10. Translingual folklore and folklorics in China / Lydia H. Liu; 11. Japan / Akiko Mori; 12. India / Sadhana Naithani; 13. Oceania / Phillip H. McArthur; 14. Folklore and folklore studies in Latin America / Fernando Fischman; 15. Folklore studies in the United States / Lee Haring and Regina F. Bendix; 16. Dancing around folklore: constructing a national culture in Turkey / Arzu Oztïrkmen; 17. Folklore studies In Israel / Dani Schrire and Galit Hasan-Rokem; 18. Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) literature / Ursula Baumgardt; 19. From Volkskunde to the "Field of many names": folklore studies in German-speaking Europe since 1945 / Regina F. Bendix; 20. Finland / Lauri Harvilahti; 21. Ireland / Diarmud O'Giollain; 22. Russia / Alexander Panchenko -- Part III. Reflection. Introduction / Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem; 23. Folklore and literature / Cristina Bacchilega; 24. Folklore and/in music / Stephen D. Winick; 25. Folklore and/on film / Pauline Greenhill; 26. Cultural heritage / Valdimar T. Hafstein; 27. Cultural property / Martin Skrydstrup; 28. Folklore: legal and constitutional power / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Part IV. Practice: Introduction / Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem; 29. Seeing, hearing, feeling, writing: approaches and methods from the perspective of ethnological analysis of the present / Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber; 30. Imagining public folklore / Debora Kodish; 31. The institutionalization of folklore / Bjarne Rogan.