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
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
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780815333500
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-8153-3350-0
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.09.1998
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 1998
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 1990 g
- Seiten: 812
- Format (B x H x T): 206 x 278 x 47 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Interdisziplinäres
- Wissenschaften
- Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
- Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
- Interdisziplinäres
- Wissenschaften
- Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
- Kulturwissenschaften