B Here I Sit: A Study of American Latrinalia

Chapters in this book

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