Originally published in 1994, Folk Law, a comprehensive two-volme collection of essays, examines ...

Frontmatter -- The Folktale: Life History vs. Structuralism UTLEY, FRANCIS LEE -- The Structural ...

With great reverence for the Bible, Dundes offers a new and exciting way to resolve some of the m...

Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents -- Preface -- Section One: Folklore Theory...

Office copier folklore—those tattered sheets of cartoons, mottoes, zany poems, defiant sayings, p...

This provocative book by a leading folklorist offers a new analysis of caste in India, focusing o...

This book focuses on the topic of 'circumventing custom' with special emphasis on the ingenious w...

The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthro...

Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection o...

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of fo...

Seven ways in which psychoanalysis illuminates folkloreBloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Fr...

Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the...

In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths:...

Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wid...

Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder a Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore

This volume gives accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures. ...

Originating more than 2500 years ago, cockfighting is one of the oldest documented sports in the ...

'. . . not a large book, but that makes all the more admirable the way the more admirable the way...

A casebook of interpretations of the ballad ''The Walled-Up Wife''. Some contributors offer compe...

Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten...

Per 2 volte, ogni estate, per circa 90 secondi, dieci cavalli percorrono correndo tre volte Piazz...

This book helps us resolve some of the mysteries and contradictions that evolved during the Bible...

Classicist Lowell Edmunds and folklorist Alan Dundes note that ''the Oedipus tale is not likely t...

Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to b...

Given the widespread consensus that the Qur'an was in oral tradition before being committed to wr...

A casebook of interpretations of the ballad 'The Walled-Up Wife'. Some contributors offer competi...

Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and signific...

Available here for the first time in English, this eyewitness account of the early days of the ps...

In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore...