Discusses old crafts and folk skills, from covered bridge building to quiltmaking, as well as the legends and lore of Indiana.

Indiana Folklore: A Reader

Politics & Social Sciences

Dégh, Linda

Social Sciences

Indiana Univ. Pr

A study of the Szeklers and their folktales.

Folktales and Society: Story-Telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community (English and German Edition)

American Folklore and the Mass Media (Folklore Today)

"This book shows how folklore―magic, miracles, and tales of enchanted princesses and genial giants―is still alive and well in the modern mass media.... contains a wealth of facts and observations with which to conjure." ―Journal of Communication
"Dégh brings her decades of expertise in folk narrative to bear in this well-researched, provocative study of the interrelationship between traditional processes of folk narrative performances and modern mass media.... Highly recommended... " ―Choice
"Spanning folk cultural developments as old as feudalism and as new as today's TV ad, American Folklore and the Mass Media demonstrates how vital folklore remains, how often it absorbs―rather than being absorbed by―the most dramatic technological innovations and social realignments." ―Carl Lindahl
"... all six essays are meaty and informative contributions to vital folkloric issues..." ―Contemporary Legend

Indiana University Press

This book shows how folklore―magic, miracles, and tales of enchanted princesses and genial giants―is still alive and well in the modern mass media.... contains a wealth of facts and observations with which to conjure." ―Journal of CommunicationDégh brings her decades of expertise in folk narrative to bear in this well-researched, provocative study of the interrelationship between traditional processes of folk narrative performances and modern mass media.... Highly recommended... " ―ChoiceSpanning folk cultural developments as old as feudalism and as new as today’s TV ad, American Folklore and the Mass Media demonstrates how vital folklore remains, how often it absorbs―rather than being absorbed by―the most dramatic technological innovations and social realignments." ―Carl Lindahl... all six essays are meaty and informative contributions to vital folkloric issues..." ―Contemporary Legend

A study of the Szeklers and their folktales.

ÂNarratives in Society represents three decades of scholarship by distinguished folklorist Linda Dégh. The twenty essays—some new, the rest newly revised—present Dégh’s ideas, theories, and approaches to folktales: the people who tell them, listen to them, pass them on, and the communities that support them.

Narratives in Society: A Performer-Centered Study of Narration (FFC, 255)

folktales and society story telling in a hungarian peasant community

indiana uni. press

Legend and Belief Dialectics of a Folklore Genre
Linda Dégh
An acclaimed folklorist asks "What is legend?"
Legend and Belief is a descriptive and analytical study of the legend, the most prolific and characteristic form of folklore in contemporary Western civilization. Not that the legend does not have ancient roots; like the tale, the joke, the ballad, the proverb, and mummery, it was also a part of an archaic preindustrial tradition. But the legend―as old as conversation and debate, and similarly questioning the human condition―was able to survive technological innovations. It has remained contemporaneous, whereas many other genres succumbed to their own anachronism. The legend’s concerns are universal and eternal, touching on the most sensitive areas of our existence. That is why stories about supernatural encounters, possessions, divine and infernal miracles, evil spirits, monsters, and prophetic dreams, as well as horror stories about insane and criminal agencies, inundate the urban/industrial world. Industrial advancement does not change the basic fragility of human life, while commercialization and the consumer orientation of the mass media have helped legends travel faster and farther. Legends are not only communicated orally, face-to-face, but also appear in the press, on radio and TV, on countless internet websites, and by e-mail to keep alive new waves of the "culture of fear."
Linda Dégh, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Folklore at Indiana University, is a folklorist/ethnologist whose speciality is the analysis of personally observed creative processes of narration in both traditional and modern communities of Europe and North America. Her numerous publications include Four Lives: People in the Tobacco Belt; Folktales and Society; American Folklore and the Mass Media; and Narratives in Society.
June 2001 496 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, index, append. cloth 0-253-33929-4 $49.95 s / £38.00

Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Folklore today: A Festschrift for Richard M. Dorson

Oinas, Felix J.

Dorson, Richard Mercer

Glassie, Henry H.

Indiana

Indiana University, Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies

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Indiana Folklore: A Reader

Folktales and Society: Story-Telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community (English and German Edition)

American Folklore and the Mass Media (Folklore Today)

American Folklore and the Mass Media (Folklore Today)

Folktales and Society: Story-Telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community (English and German Edition)

Narratives in Society: A Performer-Centered Study of Narration (FFC, 255)

folktales and society story telling in a hungarian peasant community

Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre

Folklore today: A Festschrift for Richard M. Dorson