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)

___. 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.

 

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