Folklore in the Modern World / / ed. by Richard M. Dorson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ABRAHAMS, ROGER D.,; ANDRZEJEWSKI, B. W.,; ARAKI, HIROYUKO,; BAGHBAN, HAFIZULLAH,; BEN-AMOS, DAN,; BIANCO, CARLA,; DORSON, RICHARD M.,; DÉGH, LINDA,; FERNANDEZ, JAMES W.,; FIKRY, MONA,; GEORGES, ROBERT A.,; HURREIZ, SAYYID,; KALČIK, SUSAN,; KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT, BARBARA,; KLYMASZ, ROBERT B.,; LOUKATOS, DEMETRIOS,; MARANDA, ELLI KÖNGÄS,; MESERVE, RUTH I.,; MESERVE, WALTER J.,; NEWALL, VENETIA,; PENTIKÄINEN, JUHA,; RIHTMAN-AUGUŠTIN, DUNJA,; SALEH, AHMED RUSHDI,; TOLOSANA, CARMELO LISON,; VÁZSONYI, ANDREW,
• HerausgeberIn: Dorson, Richard M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.) :; 1 Num. fig.

Table of Contents

I-XII -- PART ONE -- Introduction -- Folklore in the Modern World -- SECTION ONE. Folklore and the City -- Migration and Urbanization of a Traditional Culture: An Italian Experience -- An Oil Boom, Women, and Changing Traditions: A Study of Libyan Women in Benghazi -- The Impact of Urbanization on Shukriyya Life and Folk Poetry -- Modern and Traditional Aspects of Somali Drama -- Aspects of the Folklore of the Jamaican Ethnic Minority in Britain: A Preliminary Consideration -- Culture Shock and Narrative Creativity -- SECTION TWO. Folklore and Ideology -- Myth and Superstition in Communist China's Drama and Theater -- SECTION THREE. Folklore and the Mass Media -- The Wandering Infant-Noble Theme in Japanese Legends and Mass Media -- Influences of Mass Media on Folklore in Egypt -- Traditional Culture, Folklore, and Mass Culture in Contemporary Yugoslavia -- SECTION FOUR. Folklore and Industrialism -- Tourist Archeofolklore in Greece -- Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong -- Folklore and Culture Change: Lau Riddles of Modernization -- PART TWO -- Introduction: Part Two -- Folklore and Cultural Pluralism -- Oral Transmission of Knowledge -- The Crack on the Red Goblet or Truth and Modern Legend -- The Science in Folklore: The Case of Motif D1275 — “Magic Song” -- Verbal Art in Modern Rural Galicia -- Conceptions of Fate in Stories Told by Greeks -- The Pragmatism of Herat Folk Theater -- The Modern Local Historian in Africa -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects