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Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction

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  • edited by Elliott Oring
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Imprint: Utah State University Press
University Press of Colorado - Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction
  • Paperback Price: $35.95
  • Ebook Price: $27.95

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.

 

  • Elliott Oring

    Elliott Oring is professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles and a visiting research scholar in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, and has received the American Folklore Society Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award; the International Society for Humor Studies Lifetime Achievement Award for Scholarship, Research, and the Advancement of Humor Studies; and the Rebecca and Gene Stirling Award for Contributions to Psychological Anthropology. He has written extensively about folklore, humor, and cultural symbolism.
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-87421-128-3
  • EISBN: 978-0-87421-324-9
  • Publication Year: 1986
  • Pages: 272
  • Discount Type: Short
  • ECommerce Code: 978-0-87421-128-3
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