American Folklife /

American Folklife / / ed. by Don Yoder.

Knowledge of folk custom and folk belief can help to explain ways of thought and behavior in modern America. American Folklife, a unique collection of essays dedicated to the presentation of American tradition, broadens our understanding of the regional differences and ethnic folkways that color Ame...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Davis, Gerald L.,
Elder, Jacob D.,
Evans, James L.,
Fitch, James Marston,
Goodenough, Ward H.,
Greenhill, Leslie P.,
Kniffen, Fred B.,
Knipmeyer, William B.,
Robbins, Walter L.,
Roberts, Warren E.,
Winslow, David J.,
Yoder, Don,
HerausgeberIn:
Yoder, Don,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1976
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Folklife Studies in American Scholarship
  • 2. Folklife Study and Social Change
  • 3. Uses of the Artistic Past
  • 4. American Cultural Geography and Folklife
  • 5. Film Documentation of Folklife
  • 6. Folk Boats of Eastern French Louisiana
  • 7. Afro-American Coil Basketry in Charleston County, South Carolina: Affective Characteristics of an Artistic Craft in a Social Context
  • 8. The Whitaker-Waggoner Log House from Morgan County, Indiana
  • 9. Tollgate Lore from Upstate New York: A Contribution to Folk-Cultural Studies
  • 10. Ethnic Tensions in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to 1860
  • 11. Wishing in and Shooting in the New Year among the Germans in the Carolinas
  • 12. Morality in a Yoruba Ritual in Trinidad
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • INDEX

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