Dan Ben‐amos

Biographic Data

ID85676
NAMEDan Ben‐amos
GIVEN NAMESDan
FAMILY NAMEBen‐amos
SIGNATUREBEN AMOS D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS156
AUTHOR COUNT57
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • Between Intangible Cultural Heritage and Folklore

    Open AccessDan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEUluslararasi Kibris Universitesi…2023References: 29

    During the last half a century, the concepts of folklore and heritage went respectively through parallel but inverted courses.I think there are serious problems in the mating of "Folklore" with "Intangible Cultural Heritage" and the differences between them are unrelated to age or generation gaps but are inherent conceptual incongruities between the two ideas.Shortly after Dorson declared folklore as "one of the remarkable stories of the present …

  • Introduction to the Special Issue “The Challenge of Folklore to the Humanities”

    Open AccessDan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEHumanities2021

    Five and a half decades ago, when Stith Thompson was the doyen of American folklore studies, he published his essay “The Challenge of Folklore” in PMLA, a leading journal of the Humanities (Thompson 1964) [...]

  • Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEFolklore2018

  • Grand Theory in Folkloristics

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEFolklore2018References: 7

    Grand Theory in Folkloristics is a dramatic dialogue about folklore scholarship. The book opens with Alan Dundes’s lecture at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society on ‘Folklorist

  • Roger David Abrahams (1933–2017)

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEFolklore2018

  • Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEFolklore2018

  • Isidore Okpewho (1941-2016)

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2018

    Obituary| April 01 2018 Isidore Okpewho (1941–2016) Dan Ben-Amos Dan Ben-Amos University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2018) 131 (520): 209–218. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.131.520.0209 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dan Ben-Amos; Isidore Okpewho (1941–2016). Journal of American Folklore 1 January 201…

  • Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEFolklore2016

    Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics." Folklore, 127(3), pp. 370–371

  • A Definition of Folklore: A Personal Narrative

    Open AccessDan Ben‐amosARTICLEEstudis de Literatura Oral…2014Cited by: 2References: 32

    My definition of folklore as "artistic communication in small groups" was forged in the context of folklore studies in the 1960s, in the discontent with the definitions that were current at the time, and under the influence of anthropology, linguistics - particularly 'the ethnography of speaking' - and Russian formalism. My field research among the Edo people of Nigeria had a formative impact upon my conception of folklore, when I observed their …

  • Dov Noy (1920-2013)

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2014References: 2

    Obituary| October 01 2014 Dov Noy (1920–2013) Dan Ben-Amos Dan Ben-Amos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2014) 127 (506): 467–469. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.127.506.0467 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Dan Ben-…

  • Folklore: Performance and Communication

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-Amos et al.BOOKFolklore2013

  • Introduction: The European Fairy-Tale Tradition between Orality and Literacy

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2010References: 4

    In Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition Ruth Bottingheimer proposes to correct the historical narrative of the emergence of the fairy tale in Europe and to recognize "Straparola's role as an originator in the history of modern fairy tale" (Bottingheimer 2002:3). Giovanni Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is not exactly an unknown figure in folktale history.1 His book, Le piacevoli notti (Pleasant nights), which a…

  • Straparola: The Revolution That Was Not

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2010Cited by: 1References: 9

    Inspired by Ruth Bottigheimer's 2002 book, Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition, this article examines her proposition that the sixteenth-century Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola invented the "rise tale," in which a lowly hero or heroine climbs the socioeconomic ladder with the help of a magical benefactor. It investigates Bottigheimer's evidence for this claim as well as her argument that Straparola's lit…

  • Moses and the Angel of Death

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-Amos et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1999

  • Metaphor

    Open AccessDan Ben‐amosARTICLEJournal of Linguistic Anthropology1999Cited by: 2References: 4

  • The Name Is the Thing

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1998Cited by: 3

    During the 1996 annual meeting of the American Folklore Society (AFS), several folklorists called for the replacement of the term folklore with one that would better represent current activities in the filed and that would be free of any negative connotations. A new term would enable folklorists to center themselves in both scholarship and public affairs. In defense of folklore, the present article begins by comparing the addresses given at the c…

  • The Kingdom of Benin in West Africa

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-Amos et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts1997

    Clio smiles, then weeps. A hundred years after its destruction, the empire of Benin enters the hall of fame of civilizations. Standing alongside old standards like Greece and Rome that have constituted the canon at least since the Renaissance, and next to some newcomers like the ancient Maya, the Aztec empire, China's Tang Dynasty, and India's Gupta Dynasty that have been ushered in by the spirit of multiculturalism, Benin—so far the sole represe…

  • The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico's New Science

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-Amos et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1995

  • Trickster Tales and the Social Order: Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales. Ropo Sekoni

    Open AccessDan Ben‐amosARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1995

  • Principles for Oral Narrative Research

    Deniz Zeyrek, Axel Olrik et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1993Cited by: 9

    Foreword by Dan Ben-Amos Translators' Preface by Kirsten Wolf and Jody Jensen Introduction by Bengt Holbek 1. Introduction: The Narrative as Folklore 2. Individual Recordings of Folklore: An Evaluation of Narrative Sources A. Narrative and Recording B. The Inner Character of the Tradition C. Traditions of a Literary Origin 3. The Structure of the Narrative: The Epic Laws 4. The Life of the Narrative A. The Life and Transformation of the Narrative…

  • "Context" in Context

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEWestern Folklore1993Cited by: 11

    L'A. explique l'analyse contextuelle dans l'etude folklorique, ou la dichotomie entre texte et contexte n'existe pas. Ce type d'analyse est employe en fonction des genres etudies : narrations, proverbes, ballades chantees et devinettes. Deux termes cles sont approfondis : le contexte de culture et celui de situation qu'employait Malinowski

  • I Could Speak until Tomorrow: Oriki, Women and the past in a Yoruba Town

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-Amos et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1993

  • Folklore in the Ancient Near East

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosCHAPTERThe Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary1992

    This article will examine how the concept of “folklore” has been applied to the literature of the ANE. Terminology Coined in 1846 by William John Thoms (1803–85) who proposed “folklore” as a substitute for “Popular Antiquities or Popular Literature” (Thoms 1846: 862). In spite of his claim for orig

  • Jewish Folklore between East and West. Collected Papers

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-Amos et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1991

  • Jewish Folklore Studies

    Dan Ben‐amos, Dan Ben-AmosARTICLEModern Judaism - A Journal of…1991Cited by: 3

    Journal Article JEWISH FOLKLORE STUDIES Get access Dan Ben-Amos Dan Ben-Amos UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 1, February 1991, Pages 17–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.1.17 Published: 01 February 1991