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Folklore in the Modern World
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Table of contents
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE
- Introduction
- Folklore in the Modern World
- SECTION ONE: FOLKLORE AND THE CITY
- Migration and Urbanization of a Traditional Culture: An Italian Experience
- An Oil Boom, Women, and Changing Traditions: A Study of Libyan Women in Benghazi
- The Impact of Urbanization on Shukriyya Life and Folk Poetry
- Modern and Traditional Aspects of Somali Drama
- Aspects of the Folklore of the Jamaican Ethnic Minority in Britain: A Preliminary Consideration
- Culture Shock and Narrative Creativity
- SECTION TWO: FOLKLORE AND IDEOLOGY
- Myth and Superstition in Communist China’s Drama and Theatre
- SECTION THREE: FOLKLORE AND THE MASS MEDIA
- The Wandering Infant-Noble Theme in Japanese Legends and Mass Media
- Influences of Mass Media on Folklore in Egypt
- Traditional Culture, Folklore, and Mass Culture in Contemporary Yugoslavia
- SECTION FOUR: FOLKLORE AND INDUSTRIALISM
- Tourist Archeofolklore in Greece
- Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong
- Folklore and Culture Change: Lau Riddles of Modernization
- PART TWO
- Introduction: Part Two
- Folklore and Cultural Pluralism
- Oral Transmission of Knowledge
- The Crack on the Red Goblet or Truth and Modern Legend
- The Science in Folklore: The Case of Motif D1275 — “Magic Song”
- Verbal Art in Modern Rural Galicia
- Conceptions of Fate in Stories Told by Greeks
- The Pragmatism of Herat Folk Theater
- The Modern Local Historian in Africa
- Biographical Notes
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects