ENGLISH

American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

By Jan Harold Brunvand

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1998
ISBN
0815333501, 9780815333500
LCC
GR101 .A54 1998
Open Library ID
OL18315622M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (21154874 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
812\1690
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Contains over 500 articlesRanging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts sports and holidays tall tales and legendary figures genres and forms scholarly approaches and theories regions and ethnic groups performers and collectors writers and scholars religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography.

Similar books