"The Land Won't Burn": An Esoteric American Proverb and Its Significance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Section I On the Concepts of Folklore
5. Folkloristics: A Conception of Theory 1
6. Herder, Folklore and Romantic Nationalism 21
7. Tradition, Genuine or Spurious 38
8. The Portal Case: Authenticity, Tourism, Traditions, and the Law 43
9. Section II Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Folklore
10. The Letter in Canadian Ukrainian Folklore 53
11. Folk Medicine and the Intercultural Jest 63
12. Carnival in Canada: The Politics of Celebration 78
13. Spacey Soviets and the Russian Attitude Toward Territorial Passage 87
14. Section III Religious Folklore
15. Brothers and Sisters: Pentecostals as a Religious Folk Group 99
16. Ethnicity and Citizenship in the Ritual of an Israeli Synagogue 114
17. You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement 124
18. Section IV Occupational Folklore
19. Risk and Ritual: An Interpretation of Fishermen's Folklore in a New England Community 137
20. Tending Bar at Brown's: Occupational Role as Artistic Performance 146
21. The Last Forty-Niner: The Uses of History in the Mother Lode 158
22. Section V Childrents Folklore
23. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren 169
24. Transformations: The Fantasy of the Wicked Stepmother 178
25. Strategy in Counting Out: An Ethnographic Folklore Field Study 185
26. Section VI Folk Narratives
27. The Structure of the Turkish Romances 197
28. The Wife Who Goes Out Like a Man, Comes Back as a Hero: The Art of Two Oregon Indian Narratives 209
29. Family Misfortune Stories in American Folklore 224
30. Personal Experience Narratives: Use and Meaning in Interaction 236
31. Section VII Ballads and Folksongs
32. A Model for Textual Variation in Folksong 245
33. Oral Formulas in the Country Blues 254
34. The Battle of Harlaw 267
35. History and Harlaw 271
36. Section VIII Riddles and Proverbs
37. "Wine, Women and Song": From Martin Luther to American T-Shirts 279
38. Wise Words" of the Western Apache 291
39. "The Land Won't Burn": An Esoteric American Proverb and Its Significance 302
40. Totemism and the A.E.F. Revisited 308
41. Section IX Folk Objects
42. The Nebraska Round Barn 315
43. The Palauan Story-Board: The Evolution of a Folk Art Style 320
44. Objects of Memory: Material Culture as Life Review 329
45. Section X Documenting Folklore
46. Mediating Structures and the Significance of University Folk 339
47. The Study of Folklore in Literature and Culture: Identification and Interpretation 350
48. Documenting Folklore: The Annotation 358
49. References Cited 375