International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. In this volume, twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic comingofage in the twentieth century.

• Morphology of the Folktale
• Folk Groups And Folklore Genres: An Introduction
• Folklore: The Basics
• Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture
• Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folkore and Popular Culture
• Folklore Unbound: A Concise Introduction
• The Stigmatized Vernacular: Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability (Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
• Fire in the Placa: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco
• All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region
• A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography