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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes by Alan Dundes 9781646420698
Booksplease Price: £31.47The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung... -
Cinderella: A Casebook by Alan Dundes 9780299118648
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Covering a period of more than one hundred years of work by renowned folklorists, these enlightening essays explore the timeless tale of Cinderella. In addition to the most famous versions of the... -
Folklore Matters by Alan Dundes 9780870497766
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870497766Author Alan DundesFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint University of Tennessee... -
The Cockfight: A Casebook by Alan Dundes 9780299140540
Booksplease Price: £16.21Originating more than 2500 years ago, cockfighting is one of the oldest documented sports in the world. It has continued to flourish despite bans against it in many countries. Folklorist Alan Dundes... -
Varia Folklorica by Alan Dundes 9789027977205
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.80No detailed description available for "Varia Folklorica".Book InformationISBN 9789027977205Author Alan DundesFormat HardbackPage Count 289Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams)... -
The Vampire: A Casebook by Alan Dundes 9780299159245
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37This volume gives accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures. Eleven scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology and psychiatry examine the... -
Analytic Essays in Folklore by Alan Dundes 9789027932310
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.80No detailed description available for "Analytic Essays in Folklore".Book InformationISBN 9789027932310Author Alan DundesFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De... -
The Evil Eye: A Casebook by Alan Dundes 9780299133344
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The evil eye-the power to inflict illness, damage to property, or even death simply by gazing at or praising someone-is among the most pervasive and powerful folk beliefs in the Indo-European and... -
Fables of the Ancients?: Folklore in the Qur'an by Alan Dundes 9780742526723
Booksplease Price: £42.02Given the widespread consensus that the Qur'an was in oral tradition before being committed to written form, it should come as no surprise to learn that the Qur'an still bears the traces of its... -
The Walled-up Wife: A Casebook by Alan Dundes 9780299150747
Booksplease Price: £16.21A casebook of interpretations of the ballad ""The Walled-Up Wife"". Some contributors offer competing nationalistic claims concerning the ballad's origins, Ruth Mandel examines gender and power... -
Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook by Alan Dundes 9780299120344
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299120344Author Alan DundesFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint University of Wisconsin... -
Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth by Alan Dundes 9780520051928
Booksplease Price: £28.69Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This new volume brings together classics statements on the theory of myth by... -
Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics by Alan Dundes 9781604731873
Booksplease Price: £28.57Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms. Ever since Freud published his... -
Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore by Alan Dundes 9780847691975
Booksplease Price: £75.52This book helps us resolve some of the mysteries and contradictions that evolved during the Bible's pre-written legacy and that persist in the Great Book today. Most biblical scholars acknowledge... -
Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore Alan Dundes 9780847691982
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.59With great reverence for the Bible, Dundes offers a new and exciting way to resolve some of the mysteries and contradictions that evolved during the Bible's pre-written legacy and that persists today... -
International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore by Alan Dundes 9780847695157
Booksplease Price: £44.76International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning... -
The Blood Libel Legend: Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore by Alan Dundes 9780299131142
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98What do we know of the power of legend? How do we put to rest a vicious story, born more than nine centuries ago yet surfacing even today on American television talkshows? The infamous blood libel... -
The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 18: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes by L. Bryce Boyer
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W... -
Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow: A Freudian Folkloristic Essay on Caste and Untouchability by Alan Dundes 9780847684571
Booksplease Price: £40.79This provocative book by a leading folklorist offers a new analysis of caste in India, focusing on the rationale underlying the customs surrounding untouchability. Drawing on clues contained in two... -
The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 18: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes by L. Bryce Boyer 9781138872479
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.38Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W... -
Work Hard and You Shall be Rewarded: Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire by Alan Dundes 9780814324325
Booksplease Price: £22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814324325Author Alan DundesFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Wayne State University... -
Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore by Alan Dundes 9780878054787
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the... -
The Shabbat Elevator and other Sabbath Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay on Circumventing Custom and Jewish Character by Alan Dundes 9780742516717
Booksplease Price: £40.79There are literally hundreds if not thousands of books written about Judaism and Jews, but this book is unlike any previously published. It focuses on the topic of 'circumventing custom' with special... -
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing: Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire by Alan Dundes 9780814323588
Booksplease Price: £22.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814323588Author Alan DundesFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Wayne State University... -
Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Study of German National Character Through Folklore by Alan Dundes 9780814320389
Booksplease Price: £22.66Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wide variety of reactions ranging from high praise to utter disgust. Alan Dundes' theses identifies a... -
When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators: More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire by Alan Dundes 9780814318676
Booksplease Price: £20.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814318676Author Alan DundesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Wayne State University... -
Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore by Geza Roheim
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide... -
Fifty Key Anthropologists by Robert James Gordon
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by an international range of expert contributors, represent the... -
Frontiers Of Folklore/h by William R Bascom
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores some of the avenues of research that are exciting young folklorists. William Bascom reviews the development of folklore theories and suggests three frontiers of folklore that... -
Folk Law: Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta: Volume II by Alison Dundes Renteln 9780367110536
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £124.05Originally published in 1994, Folk Law, a comprehensive two-volme collection of essays, examines the meeting place of folklore - the unwritten law of obligations and prohibitions that are understood... -
Wise Words Pbdirect: Essays on the Proverb by Wolfgang Mieder
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.69This book is the first volume in the Garland Folklore Casebook series. It contains 20 essays on various aspects of proverb studies. These 20 essays touch upon the major concerns of paremiology, and... -
An Anatomy of Humor Arthur Asa Berger 9780765804945
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Humor permeates every aspect of society and has done so for thousands of years. People experience it daily through television, newspapers, literature, and contact with others. Rarely do social... -
The Chime Child: or Somerset Singers Being An Account of Some of Them and Their Songs Collected Over Sixty Years Ruth L. Tongue 9781138122321
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a tremendous store of folk music material over many years and eventually... -
The Chime Child: or Somerset Singers Being An Account of Some of Them and Their Songs Collected Over Sixty Years by Ruth L. Tongue 9781138953468
Booksplease Price: £110.08Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a tremendous store of folk music material over many years and eventually... -
The Fellowship of Song: Popular Singing Traditions in East Suffolk by Ginette Dunn
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04Originally published in 1980. Song is perhaps the strongest form of traditional culture. Its vigour and energy represent the power of the community from which it springs. This book focuses on... -
The Anglo-American Ballad: A Folklore Casebook by Dianne Dugaw
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Originally published in 1995. This book's collection of key essays presents a coherent overview of touchstone statements and issues in the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions and... -
In Quest of the Hero: (Mythos Series) by Otto Rank
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.27In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan's The Hero... -
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman by Susan Davis 9780252042614
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France... -
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman by Susan Davis 9780252084447
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France... -
Interpreting Folklore by Alan A. Dundes 9780253202406
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24" . . . Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore." -Center for Southern Folklore Magazine"It is...