Regina F. Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany. Galit Hasan-Rokem is Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore, and Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-RokemPart I Concepts and Phenomena 7Introduction: Concepts and Phenomena 9Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem1 The Social Base of Folklore 13Dorothy Noyes2 Tradition Without End 40Francisco Vaz da Silva3 The Poetics of Folklore 55Amy Shuman and Galit Hasan-Rokem4 Three Aspects of Oral Textuality 75Peter Seitel5 Performance 94Richard Bauman6 Myth-Ritual-Symbol 119Hagar Salamon and Harvey E. Goldberg7 Religious Practice 136Sabina Magliocco8 Work and Professions 154Gertraud Koch9 Material Culture 169Orvar LöfgrenPart II Location 185Introduction: Location 187Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem10 Translingual Folklore and Folklorics in China 190Lydia H. Liu11 Japan 211Akiko Mori12 India 234Sadhana Naithani13 Oceania 248Phillip H. McArthur14 Folklore and Folklore Studies in Latin America 265Fernando Fischman15 Folklore Studies in the United States 286Lee Haring and Regina F. Bendix16 Dancing Around Folklore: Constructing a National Culture in Turkey 305Arzu Öztürkmen17 Folklore Studies In Israel 325Dani Schrire and Galit Hasan-Rokem18 Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) Literature 349Ursula Baumgardt19 From Volkskunde to the “Field of Many Names”: Folklore Studies in German-Speaking Europe Since 1945 364Regina F. Bendix20 Finland 391Lauri Harvilahti21 Ireland 409Diarmuid Ó Giolláin22 Russia 426Alexander PanchenkoPart III Reflection 443Introduction: Reflection 445Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem23 Folklore and Literature 447Cristina Bacchilega24 Folklore and/in Music 464Stephen D. Winick25 Folklore and/on Film 483Pauline Greenhill26 Cultural Heritage 500Valdimar T. Hafstein27 Cultural Property 520Martin Skrydstrup28 Folklore: Legal and Constitutional Power 537Alison Dundes RentelnPart IV Practice 555Introduction: PracticeRegina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 55729 Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Writing: Approaches and Methods from the Perspective of Ethnological Analysis of the Present 559Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber30 Imagining Public Folklore 579Debora Kodish31 The Institutionalization of Folklore 598Bjarne Rogan Index 631

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