References
(and recommended bibliography)
of Classics
in Folklore Scholarship
Bauman, Richard. Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Bronner, Simon J., ed. American Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue and Dialogue. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction, 4th edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.
___. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981.
Dorson, Richard M., ed. Handbook of American Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Dundes,
Alan. Interpreting Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
___. Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Glassie,
Henry. Material Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999 (b)
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The Potter's Art.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999
___.
Turkish Traditional Art Today. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1993
Oring,
Elliot. Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction. Logan: Utah
State University Press, 1986.
Paredes,
Américo and Richard Bauman (editors). Toward New Perspectives in Folklore.
Bloomington: Trickster Press, 2000 (originally published as the Journal of
American Folklore, 1972), includes Ben-Amos article "Toward a
Definition of Folklore in Context"
Toelken,
Barre. The Dynamics of Folklore, revised and expanded edition. Logan:
Utah State University Press, 1996.