American Folklore Scholarship

ROSEMARY LÉVY ZUMWALT is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Davidson College.

• Foreword by Alan DundesPreface1. Discipline and Identity2. American Folklore Studies: Field and Scope3. The Schism in Folklore4. Literary Folklorists5. The Anthropological Folklorists6. Approaches to Folklore: The Literary and the Anthropological7. Remnants of the past in the present: Conflict in Contemporary Folklore TheoryNotesArchival SourcesAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex

"American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in their introductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the book before their qualifying exams." Folklore Forum "... a welcome overview of the discipline in North America and the practitioners who established it." American Anthropologist