Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art (3 Volume Set)

1312 Pages·2010·15.95 MB·English

by  Charlie T. McCormick

Folklore

Folklore
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BELIEFS,
CUSTOMS, TALES, MUSIC, AND ART
Second Edition
Charlie T. McCormick and Kim Kennedy White, Editors
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Folklore :an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music, andart.
2nd ed. / CharlieT. McCormick andKim Kennedy White, editors.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references andindex.
ISBN 978-1-59884-241-8 (hardcopy :alk. paper) ISBN978-1-59884-
242-5 (ebook)
1.Folklore Encyclopedias. I. McCormick, CharlieT. II.White, Kim Kennedy.
GR35.F63 2011
398.03 dc22 2010039858
ISBN: 978-1-59884-241-8
EISBN: 978-1-59884-242-5
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Contents
List of Entries vii
About the Editors xiii
List of Contributors xv
Foreword, by Thomas A. Green xxi
Standard Folklore Indices and Classifications xxiii
A–D Entries 1
Index I-1
v

List of Entries
Applied Folklore/Folkloristics
Arab Gulf States Folklore
Academic Programs in Folklore,
Arabian Nights
International
Archetype
Academic Programs in Folklore,
North American Architecture, Folk
Acculturation Archives and Archiving
Activism Art, Folk
Aesthetics Arthurian Lore
African American Folklore Asian American Humor and Folklore
African Folklore Asian American Literature and
Folklore
Aging
Asian American Popular Culture and
Altar, Home
Folklore
Amerasians: Folklores of Mixed
Assault, Supernatural
Heritage, Mixed Race Asian
Americans Audience
American Indian Folklore Authenticity
Scholarship Autograph Book
American Indian Tales
Anansi Ballad
Anecdote Bard
Animals Beauty and the Beast
Animal Tale Belief, Folk
Anthropological Approach Belief Tale
Anthropology, Symbolic Bluegrass: Homegrown Music
Antiquarianism Borderlands Folklore
Appalachian Folklore Broadside Ballad
vii
viii | List of Entries
Cantometrics Deconstruction
Carnival Diachronic/Synchronic
Celtic Folklore and Mythology Dialogism
Chapbook Diffusion
Charivari/Shivaree Dilemma Tales
Charm Discourse Analysis
Childbirth and Childrearing Dite
Children’s Folk Heroes Divination
Children’s Folklore Drama, Folk
Chinese Folklore
Choreometrics
Cinderella Emic/Etic
Clever Question/Wisdom Question Enigma, Folk
Communal Origins Theory Environmentalism
Communitas Ephemera
Community-Based Research Epic
Comparative Mythology Epic Laws
Computer-Mediated Folklore Erotic Folklore
Conduit Theory/Multiconduit Theory Eschatology
Contestation Esoteric/Exoteric Factor
Context Ethnic Folklore
Cosmology Ethnoaesthetics
Costume, Folk Ethnography
Craft, Folk Ethnology
Creation Myths Ethnomusicology
Cryptozoology Ethnopoetics
Cultural Property Etiological Narrative
Cultural Relativism Euhemerism
Cultural Studies Evolutionary Theory
Culture Hero Exorcism
Custom
Cyberculture Fabulate
Faerie and Fairy Lore
Dance, Folk Fairy Tale Heroes
Deathlore Fakelore
List of Entries | ix
Family Folklore Graffiti
Feast Great Tradition/Little Tradition
Feminist Perspectives on Folklore Grimm Brothers
Scholarship
Festival Helpers, Folk
Fieldwork Hemispheric Approach
Film, Folklore Hero/Heroine, Folk
Folk Culture Historical Analysis
Folk Group Historic-Geographic
Folklife Method
Folklore History, Folk
Folklorismus/Folklorism History, Oral
Folk Schools Holidays and Commemorations
Folksong, Lyric Hybrid
Folksong, Narrative Hymn, Folk
Folktale
Foodways Icelandic Sagas
Fool Immigration
Formula Indian Folklore
Frame Inscription
Freedom Songs Internet
Freudian Psychology Invented Tradition
Frontier Folk Heroes
Functionalism Jack and the Beanstalk
Japanese Folklore
Games, Folk Jewelry
Gay (LGBTQ) Studies and Queer Jewish Folktales
Theory
Joke
Gender
Jungian Psychology
Genre
Gesture King Arthur
Gesunkenes Kulturgut
Giants Language, Play
Globalization Language, Secret
Gossip Latino Folklore