A Celebration of American family folklore : tales and traditions from the Smithsonian collection / Steven J. Zeitlin, Amy J. Kotkin, Holly Cutting Baker.
From the Family Folklore Program of the Smithsonian's Folklife festival.
Item details
- ISBN: 0394520955
- ISBN: 9780394520957
- ISBN: 0394712234 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780394712239 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xii, 291 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1982.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Collected from the Family Folklore Program of the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Family folklore: the creative expression of a common past -- The forms of family lore -- Family stories -- Heroes -- Rogues -- Mischief makers -- Survivors -- Innocents -- Migrations -- Lost fortunes -- Courtships -- Family feuds -- Supernatural happenings -- Other stories -- Stories for children -- Family expressions -- Family customs -- Family photography -- Family albums -- Other ways of preserving the past -- Five American families -- The wedding dance / Steven J. Zeitlin -- She comes by it honestly: characterization in family folklore / Amanda Dargan -- Getting the butter from the duck: proverbs and proverbial expressions in an Afro-American family / Dennis W. Folly -- How many are on our side?" growing up in Greenwich Village / Anne Warner -- Blessing the ties that bind: storytelling at family festivals / Margaret Yocom -- How to collect your own family folklore. |
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Subject: | Families > United States > Folklore. United States > Social life and customs. |
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