Contexts of Folklore

Festschrift for Dan Ben-Amos on His Eighty-Fifth Birthday

366 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Dan Ben-Amos famously ushered in the performance turn in folklore studies in the 1970s with his paradigm-changing definition of folklore as "artistic communication in small groups." He went on to make profound contributions to issues of folktale, folk speech, genre, cultural memory, biblical and Jewish folklore, African folklore, and historiography, and gain renown around the world as a leading figure in folklore studies. In Contexts of Folklore, leading lights of folklore studies from many corners of the globe honor Ben-Amos by presenting original studies inspired by his insights. Their essays will assuredly be lasting, provocative statements of folklore research that will energize future generations of folklorists and other scholars of culture and communication.

• Reihe: International Folkloristics
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Volksglaube Folklore-, Mythen- und Legendenforschung
• ISBN: 9781433156489
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2019
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Band herausgegeben von: Simon Bronner, Wolfgang Mieder