A Companion to Folklore
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A Companion to Folklore offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of the human propensity to view folklore studies around the world as they are shaped by memory, current discourses, institutional practices, and ideologies. Top scholars will be enlisted to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, and this new companion will be an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, folklore, and public history.
A Companion to Folklore presents an original and…mehr

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A Companion to Folklore offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of the human propensity to view folklore studies around the world as they are shaped by memory, current discourses, institutional practices, and ideologies. Top scholars will be enlisted to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, and this new companion will be an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, folklore, and public history.
A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe.

An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts
Examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore
Considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore
Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
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Autorenporträt
Regina F. Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany. Galit Hasan-Rokem is Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore, and Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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"This 660-page anthology is important, containing thirty-six essays by thirty-three scholars, who represent different countries and approaches to the study of folklore." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 March 2014)

"A Companion to Folkloreis nothing if not international, and this quality alone distinguishes it from most earlier reference works and makes it an important resource for the field." (Western Folklore, 1 May 2013