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It's the way families and folklore work, without anyone doing anything out of the ordinary. But sometimes families like to collect their folklore. They make scrapbooks or family recipe books. Think about collecting your own family's ...
For Further Reading: Beeler, Selby B. Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Brill, Marlene Targ. Tooth Tales from around the World. Watertown, Mass.: Charlesbridge, 1998.
Photographs, memorabilia, and stories examine American life, quirks, family traditions, and celebrations.
Written by an international team of acclaimed folklorists, this reference text provides a cross-cultural survey of the major types and methods of inquiry in folklore.
Explains the different types of family folklore, including family holiday traditions, stories passed down from older generations, and superstitions.
"From anecdotes, boasts, and children's stories to urban tall tales, vampires, and Xerox-lore, this superb scholarly dictionary illuminates the historical and contemporary form, figures, and fields of folklore.
Texas' most prominent Black writer and one of the nation's leading black folklorists. Brewer (who published as J.Mason Brewer) was the first Black member of theTexas Folklore Society and the first Black to serve as vice president of the ...
Italian-American folklore includes the traditions and customs of those immigrating to the United States from Italy, along with persons of Italian descent born in the United States. Italians have been in America ever since the arrival of ...
9 Richard M. Dorson voiced similar criticism twelve years later in the " Regional Collectors " section of " A Theory for American Folklore . " Dorson complained that regional folklore scholarship in the United States was " motivated ...
the Martin house, was just up the road, and Papa and the boys would take the wagon and mules home for the evening. Their lateafternoon meetings put Uncle Carl in the Fambrough family's neck of the woods, where he later met and married ...