14 Getting the Folk and the Lore Together

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the Paperback Edition vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xix
5. The Analytics of Alan Dundes 1
6. References 36
7. Structure and Analysis
8. Folklore as a Mirror of Culture 53
9. The Study of Folklore in Literature and Culture: Identification and Interpretation 67
10. Metafolklore and Oral Literary Criticism 77
11. From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales 88
12. The Motif-Index and the Tale Type Index: A Critique 101
13. How Indic Parallels to the Ballad of the “Walled-Up Wife” Reveal the Pitfalls of Parochial Nationalistic Folkloristics 107
14. Structuralism and Folklore 123
15. Binary Opposition in Myth: The Propp/Lévi-Strauss Debate in Retrospect 145
16. On Game Morphology: A Study of the Structure of Non-Verbal Folklore 154
17. The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory 164
18. Worldview and Identity
19. Folk Ideas as Units of Worldview 179
20. Worldview in Folk Narrative 193
21. As the Crow Flies: A Straightforward Study of Lineal Worldview in American Folk Speech 196
22. Much Ado About “Sweet Bugger All”: Getting to the Bottom of a Puzzle in British Folk Speech 211
23. Grouping Lore: Scientists and Musicians 229
24. Science in Folklore? Folklore in Science? 232
25. Viola Jokes: A Study of Second String Humor 237
26. Medical Speech and Professional Identity 249
27. The Gomer: A Figure of American Hospital Folk Speech 252
28. “When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think Horses, Not Zebras”: A Folk Medical Diagnostic Proverb 264
29. Symbol and Mind
30. Getting the Folk and the Lore Together 273
31. Gallus as Phallus: A Psychoanalytic Cross-Cultural Consideration of the Cockfight as Fowl Play 285
32. The Symbolic Equivalence of Allomotifs: Towards a Method of Analyzing Folktales 317
33. Earth-Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male 325
34. Madness in Method Plus a Plea for Projective Inversion in Myth 343
35. Theses on Feces: Scatological Analysis 352
36. The Folklore of Wishing Wells 355
37. Here I Sit: A Study of American Latrinalia 360
38. The Kushmaker 375
39. The Ritual Murder or Blood Libel Legend: A Study of Anti-Semitic Victimization through Projective Inversion 382
40. On the Psychology of Collecting Folklore 410
41. Chain Letter: A Folk Geometric Progression 422
42. Index 427