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Guide to Books in the Fife Folklore Archives: Folk Coll 23

This guide provides an overview of the books housed within the folklore collections in Utah State University’s Special Collections and Archives (SCA). Many of these book groupings were assembled by folklorists, donors, and researchers over several decades

Folk Collection 23 - The Elliott Oring Book Collection

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Folk Coll 23 – A–Z Book List

A–Z Titles
  • A preliminary catalogue and edition of German folk ballads : the test of a thematic classification system on 187 narrative folksong types / by David Gray Engle. — Engle, David Gray, 1946-
  • A separate reality : further conversations with Don Juan / by Carlos Castaneda. — Castaneda, Carlos, 1931-1998
  • Afro-American folklore collections. — Wayne State University. Folklore Archive
  • An introduction to folk music in the United States. — Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020
  • Anden i lampan : etnologiska perspektiv på ljus och mörker / Jan Garnert. — Garnert, Jan, 1950-
  • Ballads and other genres = Balladen und andere Gattungen.
  • Béaloideas : the journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society.
  • California Indian shamanism / edited by Lowell John Bean.
  • Civilizations of Black Africa / Jacques Maquet ; rev. and translated by Joan Rayfield. — Maquet, Jacques Jérôme Pierre, 1919-2013
  • Clan, caste, and club / F.L.K. Hsu. — Hsu, Francis L. K., 1909-1999
  • Claude Levi-Strauss : the anthropologist as hero / edited by E. Nelson Hayes and Tanya Hayes.
  • Contributions to the study of contemporary folklore in Croatia = Prilozi proučavanju suvremenog folklora u Hrvatskoj.
  • Coyote stories of the Navaho people / edited by Robert A. Roessel, Jr. and Dillon Platero ; illustrated by George Mitchell. — Roessel, Robert A.
  • Dahomean narrative : a cross-cultural analysis / by Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits. — Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
  • Doing fieldwork : warnings and advice / Rosalie H. Wax. — Wax, Rosalie H.
  • Explorations in the ethnography of speaking / edited by Richard Bauman and Joel Sherzer.
  • Fire in the plaça : Catalan festival politics after Franco / Dorothy Noyes. — Noyes, Dorothy
  • Folklore in the modern world / editor, Richard M. Dorson.
  • Frame analysis : an essay on the organization of experience / Erving Goffman. — Goffman, Erving, 1922-1982
  • French folklife in old Vincennes / Ronald L. Baker. — Baker, Ronald L., 1937-2023
  • Generating lives : the construction of an autobiography / Elliott Oring. — Oring, Elliott, 1945-
  • German and German-American folklore collections / compiled by Angela Dubicki and Christina S. Rostkowycz ; edited by Philip LaRonge. — Wayne State University. Folklore Archive
  • Humour, wit, & satire of the seventeenth century / collected and illustrated by John Ashton. — Ashton, John, 1834-1911
  • I could talk old-story good : creativity in Bahamian folklore / Daniel J. Crowley. — Crowley, Daniel J., 1921-1998
  • Identity and everyday life : essays in the study of folklore, music, and popular culture / Harris M. Berger and Giovanna P. Del Negro. — Berger, Harris M., 1966-
  • In the shadow of Tlaloc : life in a Mexican village / Gregory G. Reck. — Reck, Gregory G., 1944-
  • Indians of the plains / Robert H. Lowie. — Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957
  • Jewish Moroccan folk narratives from Israel / [edited by] Haya Bar-Itzhak and Aliza Shenhar.
  • Kibbutz : venture in utopia / Melford E. Spiro. — Spiro, Melford E.
  • Koestler, Raskin, Attardo ja teised : lingvistiliste huumoriteooriate uuemaist arenguist / Arvo Krikmann. — Krikmann, A.
  • La légende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak / par Charles de Coster. — Coster, Charles de, 1827-1879
  • Language, poetry, and memory reflections on national socialism : Harry H. Kahn Memorial Lectures (2000-2004) / edited by Wolfgang Mieder and David Scrase.
  • Learning how to ask : a sociolinguistic appraisal of the role of the interview in social science research / Charles L. Briggs. — Briggs, Charles L., 1953-
  • Limba stories and story-telling / [compiled and translated by] Ruth Finnegan. — Finnegan, Ruth H.
  • Literature among the primitives / John Greenway. — Greenway, John
  • Living country blues / by Harry Oster. — Oster, Harry
  • Magic and schizophrenia / by Géza Róheim ; posthumously edited by Warner Muensterberger, with the assistance of S. H. Posinsky ; foreword by Sandor Lorand. — Róheim, Géza, 1891-1953
  • Magic, science and religion : and other essays / Bronislaw Malinowski ; with an introduction by Robert Redfield. — Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942
  • Mass culture, language and arts in India : papers presented at a symposium at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina / edited by Mahadev L. Apte. — Symposium on Mass Culture, Language, and Arts in India (1970 : Duke University)
  • Märchen, Phantasie und Wirklichkeit / Hermann Bausinger. — Bausinger, Hermann
  • Morphology of the folktale / by V. Propp ; translated by Laurence Scott ; with an introd. by Svatava Pirkova-Jakobson. — Propp, V. I︠A︡. (Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich), 1895-1970
  • Myth and mythmaking / edited and with an introduction by Henry A. Murray.
  • Mythology / Jane Ellen Harrison. — Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928
  • Myths & legends beyond our borders / by Charles M. Skinner. — Skinner, Charles M. (Charles Montgomery), 1852-1907
  • Myths and legends of all nations / by Herbert Spencer Robinson and Knox Wilson. — Robinson, Herbert Spencer
  • Narodna umjetnost.
  • Nine Dayak nights / W. R. Geddes. — Geddes, W. R. (William Robert)
  • Patterns of culture / by Ruth Benedict ; with a new preface by Margaret Mead. — Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948
  • Polish and Polish-American folklore collections. — Wayne State University. Folklore Archive
  • Recentering Anglo/American folksong : sea crabs and wicked youths / Roger deV. Renwick. — Renwick, Roger deV., 1941-
  • Reflections on the Folklife Festival : an ethnography of participant experience / Richard Bauman, Patricia Sawin, and Inta Gale Carpenter ; with Richard Anderson ... [and others]. — Bauman, Richard, 1940-
  • Story, performance, and event : contextual studies of oral narrative / Richard Bauman. — Bauman, Richard, 1940-
  • Structural anthropology / Claude Levi-Strauss ; translated from the French by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. — Lévi-Strauss, Claude
  • Survivors of Eldorado : four Indian cultures of South America / Johannes Wilbert. — Wilbert, Johannes
  • Symbolic classification / Rodney Needham. — Needham, Rodney
  • Tahitian transformation : gender and capitalist development in a rural society / by Victoria S. Lockwood. — Lockwood, Victoria S., 1953-
  • The Iliad : the story of Achillês / translated by W.H.D. Rouse. — Homer
  • The Jewish experience of European anti-semitism : Harry H. Kahn Memorial Lectures (1990-1994) / edited by Hazel Kahn Keimowitz and Wolfgang Mieder.
  • The anthropology of music / [by] Alan P. Merriam. — Merriam, Alan P., 1923-1980
  • The anthropology of numbers / Thomas Crump. — Crump, Thomas
  • The decorated body / Robert Brain. — Brain, Robert, 1933-
  • The feudal transformation : 900-1200 / Jean-Pierre Poly, Eric Bournazel ; translated by Caroline Higgitt. — Poly, Jean-Pierre, 1941-
  • The films of Bess Lomax Hawes [videorecording].
  • The folk-tales of the Magyars : selection / [edited by] W. Henry Jones and Lewis L. Kropf.
  • The hero with a thousand faces / by Joseph Campbell. — Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987
  • The legend of the wandering Jew / by Joseph Gaer ; with eight illus. by Gustave Dore. — Gaer, Joseph, 1897-1969
  • The people of the saints / George Mills. — Mills, George (George Thompson)
  • The schlemiel as modern hero / Ruth R. Wisse. — Wisse, Ruth R.
  • Thespis : ritual, myth, and drama in the ancient Near East / Theodor H. Gaster ; foreword by Gilbert Murray. — Gaster, Theodor Herzl, 1906-1992
  • They studied man / Abram Kardiner and Edward Preble. — Kardiner, Abram, 1891-1981
  • Traditional British ballads / edited by Bartlett Jere Whiting.
  • Vom Lachen : einem Phänomen auf der Spur / herausgegeben von Thomas Vogel.