Folk Groups and Folklore Genres
An Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4328129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Harold Brunvand, Elliott Oring |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 136 |
| Publication date | 1987-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-373X • E-ISSN: 2325-811X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1499937 |
| OpenAlex | W584365595 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
Oring's introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques. Since 1986, when it was first published, this book has met the need for good instructional material at a time of tremendous growth in folklore programs and introductory courses in colleges and universities around the world
Art · Folklore · Literature · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History
Fermentation of intangible cultural heritage
Doing' Racialized and Gendered Age to Organize Peer Relations
Whispers in an Ice Cream Parlor
Legendry and the Rhetoric of Truth
Fairy Godfather , Fairy-Tale History, and Fairy-Tale Scholarship
Folk and Academic Racism
Apple Stack Cake as Folk Tradition, Myth, and Icon in the Construction of an Appalachian Cuisine
Between Folk and Lore
Lake Qooqa as a Narrative
Folk Gothic
The Roles of Oromo-Speaking Children in the Storytelling Tradition in Ethiopia
Women and the Formation of Swedish Folklife Research
Chinese American Culture in the Making
Introduction
From Rebounds to Three-Pointers
A Folklore Approach to Emotions in Work
“Once I’m there I can find out where I am”
Unveiling the counternarratives of Ganga
Reimaging Human-Nature Interactions and Reclaiming Marginal Identity through Folk Narratives of Sundarbans
Winged Words and Chief Complaints
Asemenea hoți înfrățiți cu poporul”
She’s From Bothy Sike’ Challenges to Research and the Experience of Belonging
Folkloric memory
(Inter) text, performance, and the African humanities
Did it happen or did it not?”
Children as Interpreters of Culture
Filling “An Immense Brain with Very Little in the Brain” for “Perpetual Memory”
Fairy Godfather , Fairy-Tale History, and Fairy-Tale Scholarship
Changing motifs in digital folklore characters of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Celebrating Arabs
Folktales, Reality, and Childhood in Ethiopia
A Good Saxon Compound”
It’s Growl You May, But go You Must’
Oral narrative as ideological weapon for subordinating women
A Romance-Legend as a Manifestation of Gender Ideology at Lake Patengan Tourist Destination in West Java, Indonesia
Slovenian Folk Culture
St Nicholas as a public festival in Java, 1870-1920; Articulating Dutch popular culture as ethnic culture
Establishing Igbo Community Tradition in the United States
Hay que agacharse
English immigrants' narratives of linguistic and cultural confusion
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2025 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |