Author : Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
Release : 1988-06-22
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 721/5 ( reviews)

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American Folklore Scholarship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Folklore Scholarship write by Rosemary Levy Zumwalt. This book was released on 1988-06-22. American Folklore Scholarship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in their introductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the book before their qualifying exams." --Folklore Forum "... a welcome overview of the discipline in North America and the practitioners who established it." --American Anthropologist In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the split between literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked at literary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture of the people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.