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Folklore Studies

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"Alas, Poor Ghost!" Traditions of Belief in Story and Discourse Gillian Bennett
The Anguish of Snails Native American Folklore in the West Barre Toelken
Children's Folklore A Source Book ed. Brian Sutton-Smith et al.
Cemeteries and Gravemarkers Voices of American Culture Richard E. Meyer, editor
The Dynamics of Folklore Revised and Expanded Edition Barre Toelken
Exploring Folk Art Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics Michael Owen Jones
The Fierce Tribe Masculine Identity and Performance in the Circuit Mickey Weems
The Flowering Thorn International Ballad Studies ed. Thomas McKean
Folklore in Utah A History and Guide to Resources ed. David Stanley
The Folklore Muse Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists ed. Frank de Caro
Folklore/Cinema Popular Film as Vernacular Culture ed. Mikel J. Koven and Sharon R. Sherman
Folk Groups and Folklore Genre An Introduction ed. Elliott Oring
Folk Groups and Folklore Genre A Reader ed. Elliott Oring
Following Tradition Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture Simon J. Bronner
Haunting Experiences Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, Jeannie Banks Thomas
Healing Logics Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems ed. Erika Brady
Listening for a Life A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth Patricia Sawin
Living Folklore An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions Martha C. Sims and Martine Stephens
Living with Stories: Telling, Retelling, and Remembering ed. William Schneider

Marrow of Human Experience Essays on Folklore William A. Wilson
The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes ed. Simon J. Bronner
Mormon Healer and Folk Poet Mary Susannah Fowler's Life of "Unselfish Usefulness" Margaret K. Brady
Of Corpse Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture ed. Peter Narvýez
On Being Human: The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries, William A. Wilson
Once Upon a Virus AIDS Legends and Vernaular Risk Perception Diane E. Goldstein
Out of the Ordinary Folklore and the Supernatural ed. Barbara Walker
Proverbs are the Best Policy Wolfgang Mieder
The Roll Away Saloon Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip Rowland W. Rider, as told to Deirdre M. Paulsen
So They Understand Cultural Issues in Oral History William Schneider
Usable Pasts Traditions and Group Expressions in North America ed. Tad Tuleja
"We Gather Together" Food and Festival in American Life ed. Theodore C. Humphrey and Lin T. Humphrey
What Goes Around Comes Around The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life ed. Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen Winick
Worldviews and the American West The Life of the Place Itself ed. Polly Stewart et al.

Multicultural Studies

Creative Ethnicity Symbols and Strategies of Contemporary Ethnic Life Stephen Stern and John Allan Cicala, editors
Faces and Voices of Refugee Youth ed. Joyce A. Kelen and Leslie G. Kelen
Ghosts and the Japanese Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends Michiko Iwasaka and Barre Toelken
Imagined States Nationalism, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures ed. Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter
Los Dos Mundos Rural Mexican Americans, Another America Richard Baker
The Marrow of Human Experience Essays on Folklore, William A. Wilson, ed. Jill Terry Rudy
Missing Stories An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah Leslie G. Kelen and Eileen Hallet Stone
Mother's Table, Father's Chair Cultural Narratives of Basque American Women Jacqueline S. Thursby
A Shared Space Folklife of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands James S. Griffith
Studies in Italian American Folklore Luisa Del Giudice, editor
When Our Words Return Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon ed. Phyllis Morrow and William Schneider

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