Folklore
Some of the titles are a part of the series Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World, Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest, or New Directions in Anthropological Writing.
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City of Neighborhoods
Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston
Anthony Bak Buccitelli
“This fascinating deep-dive into historically ethnic neighborhoods reveals that old stereotypes have been supplanted by vibrant, multiethnic neighborhoods that now use ethnicity as a means for inclusion. A riveting, insider look into what really happens in Boston’s diverse neighborhoods.”
—Timothy Tangherlini, University of California, Los Angeles
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ISBN 978-0-299-30890-2
Packy Jim
Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border
Ray Cashman
“A brilliant testament to the ethnographer’s art, the deeply rooted wisdom of an ‘ordinary’ person, and the complex ways in which folklore figures in everyday life along the Irish border.”
—James P. Leary, author of Folksongs of Another America
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Ukrainian Otherlands
Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Spring 2015
An Irish-Speaking Island
State, Religion, Community, and the Linguistic Landscape in Ireland, 1770–1870
Nicholas M. Wolf
Fall 2014
The Last Laugh
Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age
Trevor J. Blank
Spring 2013
Trickster and Hero
Two Characters in the Oral and Written Traditions of the World
Harold Scheub
Fall 2012
Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers
Folk Traditions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Richard M. Dorson, Edited and with an introduction by James P. Leary
Spring 2008
Cafe Indiana
A Guide to Indiana’s Down-Home Cafes
Joanne Raetz Stuttgen
Fall 2007
Ach Ya!
Traditional German-American Music from Wisconsin
Compiled and edited by Philip Martin and James P. Leary
Spring 2005
Cafe Wisconsin
A Guide to Wisconsin’s Down-Home Cafes
Joanne Raetz Stuttgen
Fall 2004
Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie
A Nineteenth-Century Cookbook for German Immigrants to America
Henriette Davidis, With an introduction by Louis A. Pitschmann
Fall 2002
So Ole Says to Lena
Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest
Compiled and edited by James P. Leary
Fall 2001
Home Cooked Culture
Wisconsin through Recipes
Edited by Terese Allen, Compiled by Choua Ly
Spring 1999
Story
Harold Scheub
Fall 1998
Passed to the Present
Folk Arts Along Wisconsin’s Ethnic Settlement Trail
Edited by Robert T. Teske
Spring 1998
The Masada Myth
Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel
Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Fall 1995
Oedipus
A Folklore Casebook
Edited by Lowell Edmunds and Alan Dundes
Fall 1995
Folk Law
Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta
Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln and Alan Dundes
Fall 1995
The Wisdom of Many
Essays on the Proverb
Edited by Wolfgang Mieder and Alan Dundes
Fall 1994
Eat Not This Flesh
Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the Present
Frederick J. Simoons
Fall 1994
Magical Arrows
The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe
Gregory Schrempp, With a Foreword by Marshall Sahlins
Spring 1992
Cinderella
A Casebook
Edited by Alan Dundes
Fall 1988
The Alabama Folk Lyric
A Study in Origins and Media of Dissemination
Collected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by Ray B. Browne
1979
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