Handbook of American folklore

Part I. Topics of Research --

American Experiences --

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Colonizing a New Society / William D. Piersen 4 --

Finding the Way Home : The Interpretation of American Indian Folklore / Elaine Jahner 11 --

The Unfulfilled Promise of North American Indian Folklore / George Lankford 18 --

Afro-American Folk Music / Ronald R. Smith 24 --

The Westward Movement / Thomas D. Clark 32 --

Studying Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 39 --

The Legacy of Early Afro-American Folklore Scholarship / Adrienne Lanier Seward 48 --

American Cultural Myths 57 --

The Noble and Ignoble Savage / Wilcomb E. Washburn 60 --

Rags to Riches / Robert H. Walker 67 --

Fables of Innocence / David W. Marcell 73 --

The Myth of the American Adam / Giles Gunn 79 --

American Settings 86 --

In the Family Tradition / Amy J. Kotkin and Steven J. Zeitlin 90 --

A Family's Repertoire / Leonard Roberts 100 --

The Folklore of Students / Ronald L. Baker 106 --

Office Folklore / Alan Dundes 115 --

Factory Folklore / Bruce E. Nickerson 121 --

Occupational Folklore : The Outdoor Industries / Robert Mitchell 128 --

The Folk Church : Institution, Event, Performance / William M. Clements 136 --

The Black Folk Church / William H. Wiggins, Jr. 145 --

Mormon Folklore / William A. Wilson 155 --

Urban Folklore / Gerald Warshaver 162 --

Suburban Folklore / Richard A. Reuss 172 --

"Hanging Out" : Recreational Folklore in Everyday Life / James P. Leary 178 --

Regional Folkloristics / William E. Lightfoot 183 --

The Southwest : A regional Case Study / Marta Weigle 194 --

Regional Folk Speech and Sayings / Jan Harold Brunvand 201 --

The Study of Regional Songs and Ballads / Edward D. Ives 208 --

Folklore, Social Conflict, and the United States-Mexico Border / Jose E. Limon 216 --

Folklore of the Canadian-American Border / Robert B. Klymasz 227 --

Americanization of Folklore in U.S. Possessions and Territories / Robert Mitchell 233 --

American Entertainments 237 --

Festival in America / Beverly J. Stoeltje 239 --

Folklore on the American Stage / Robert C. Toll 247 --

American Sports and Folklore / Elizabeth Peterson 257 --

American Forms and Performers 265 --

Personal Experience Stories / Sandra K.D. Stahl 268 --

Conversational Genres / Sally Yerkovich 277 --

Folk Singers and Musicians / David Evans 282 --

Folktale Performers / Richard M. Dorson 287 --

Folk Craftsmen / John Michael Vlach 301 --

Folk Healers / David J. Hufford 306 --

Children's Folklore / John H. McDowell 314 --

Part II. Interpretation of Research 323 --

A Historical Theory for American Folklore / Richard M. Dorson 326 --

How to Interpret American Folklore Historically / Lawrence W. Levine 338 --

Interpreting Folklore Ethnographically and Sociologically / Roger D. Abrahams 345 --

Interpreting Folklore Ideologically / Archie Green 351 --

Part III. Methods of Research 359 --

The Field Study of Folklore in Context / Richard Bauman 362 --

Collecting Musical Folklore and Folksong / D.K. Wilgus 369 --

Folkloristic Study of the American Artifact : Objects and Objectives / Henry Glassie 376 --

Sound Recording and Still Photography in the Field / Carl Fleischhauer 384 --

Using a Folklore Archive / Janet Langlois and Philip LaRonge 391 --

Using Video in the Field / Richard Blaustein 397 --

Folklore Research and Museums / William B. Moore 402 --

Studying American Folklore in Printed Sources / Francis A. de Caro 411 --

Studying Folklore and American Literature / Sandra K.D. Stahl 422 --

Sound Recordings, Use and Challenge / Archie Green 434 --

Studying American Folkloric Films / Sharon R. Sherman 441 --

Bibliographies and Indexes in American Folklore Research / Angela J. Maniak 447 --

Folklorists at Work : A Portfolio from the American Folklife Center / Carl Fleischhauer 452 --

Part IV. Presentation of Research 459 --

Teaching Folklore to Graduate Students : The Introductory Proseminar / Richard M. Dorson 463 --

Teaching Folklore in American Colleges and Universities / Ronald L. Baker 470 --

The Publication of Research / Richard M. Dorson 478 --

Indexing a Folklore Collection : Balance, Flexibility, and the Empathizing Indexer / Michael Edward Bell 486 --

Developing a Folklore Archive / Joseph C. Hickerson 493 --

Organizing a Folklore Museum / Ormond H. Loomis 499 --

Filming the Folk / George Carey 507 --

Video in the Classroom and Community Outreach Projects / Richard Blaustein 513 --

Developing a State Folklife Program / Charles Camp 518 --

Folk Is a Four-Letter Word : Dealing with Traditional * * * * in Fieldwork, Analysis, and Presentation / Rayna Green 525 --

Ethics and the Folklorist / Wm. Hugh Jansen 533.