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