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American Folklore: An Encyclopedia Tapa blanda - 1998

Name: American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
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Contains over 500 articles
Ranging 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.
Special features
*More than 2000 contributors
*Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more
*Alphabetically arranged
*Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies
*Edited by America's best-known folklore authority

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Folk traditions of the college and university campus.

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Título American Folklore: An Encyclopedia
Autor Jan Harold Brunvand (Editor)
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Edición New edition
Páginas 812
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Routledge, New York
Fecha de publicación September 1, 1998
Ilustrado Sí
ISBN 9780815333500 / 0815333501
Peso 4.07 libras (1.85 kg)
Dimensiones 10.82 x 8.22 x 1.85 pulgadas (27.48 x 20.88 x 4.70 cm)
Library of Congress subjects North America - Social life and customs, Folklore - North America
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 98038863
Dewey Decimal Code 398.097

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Jan Harold Brunvand, author of the standard text-book he Study of American Folklore, Third Edition (1986), is best known for his collections of urban legends, among them The Vanishing Hitchhiker (1981), he Choking Doberman(1984), and Curses' Broiled Again!(1989). He has been asyndicated columnist and has appeared on nationaltelevision.

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