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In search of authenticity: the formation of folklore studies

Regina Bendix
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • PART 1. THE INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF AUTHENTICITY (page 25)
    • 1. Poetry, History, and Democracy: Locating Authenticity (page 27)
    • 2. From Experience to Representation: The Onset of a Scientific Search for Authenticity (page 45)
    • 3. American Romanticism and the Emergence of Folklore Studies (page 68)
  • PART 2. THE ROLE OF AUTHENTICITY IN SHAPING FOLKLORISTIC THEORY, APPLICATION, AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION (page 95)
    • 4. Latent Authenticity Quests in Folklore Definitions and Theories in Turn-of-the-Century Germany (page 97)
    • 5. Defining a Field, Defining America (page 119)
  • PART 3. QUESTIONING THE CANON (page 155)
    • 6. Departures and Revisions: Toward a Volksbunde Without Canon (page 159)
    • 7. From Fakelore to the Politics of Culture: The Changing Contours of American Folkloristics (page 188)
    • 8. Epilogue (page 219)
  • Notes (page 231)
  • Bibliography (page 261)
  • Index (page 295)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
WF 57.4 (Autumn 1998): 275-276 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1500264
JAF 114.451 (Winter 2001): 86-87 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3592387
AANTH 101.3 (Sep. 1999): 696-697 http://www.jstor.org/stable/683908
CH 68.1 (Mar. 1999): 254-255 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3170199
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Published: c1997
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299155445 (paper)
  • 9780299155438 (ebook)
  • 9780299155407 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Folklore
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