American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent

by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

"American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining theintellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interestinghistorical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in theirintroductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the bookbefore their qualifying exams." -- FolkloreForum

..". a welcome overview of the discipline in NorthAmerica and the practitioners who established it." -- AmericanAnthropologist

In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the splitbetween literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked atliterary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture ofthe people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.

Genres: Folklore

202 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988