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Bibliographic Details

Title: American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1551)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0815333501
ISBN 13: 9780815333500
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good
Weight: 65 ounces

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Contains over 500 articles
Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography.
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*More than 2000 contributors
*Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more
*Alphabetically arranged
*Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies
*Edited by America's best-known folklore authority

About the Author

Jan Harold Brunvand, author of the standard text-book he Study of American Folklore, Third Edition (1986), is best known for his collections of urban legends, among them The Vanishing Hitchhiker (1981), he Choking Doberman(1984), and Curses' Broiled Again!(1989). He has been asyndicated columnist and has appeared on nationaltelevision.

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