Contexts of Folklore: Festschrift for Dan Ben-Amos on His Eighty-Fifth Birthday (Hardcover)

Preface and Acknowledgments ? Simon J. Bronner / Wolfgang Mieder: Introduction: The Contexts of Dan Ben-Amos ? Clover Jebsen Afokpa: Nondichao Bachalou, Museum Guide and Historian of Abomey, Benin ? Haya Bar-Itzhak: The Truth of Fervent Desire: Stories About the Deaths of Jewish Cultural Heroes During the Holocaust ? Richard Bauman: Signing at Cross-Purposes ? Michael J. Bell: Stephen Dedalus Sings "Little Harry Hughes": Anti-Semitism as Folkloric Performance in James Joyce’s Ulysses ? Regina F. Bendix/Galit Hasan-Rokem: Israeli Political Humor: What Was There To Laugh About in 1967? ? Charles L. Briggs: The Bodies of the Narrator ? Gary Alan Fine/Stephanie Bliese/Christopher Robertson: The Jesus Movement as Folk Group ? Ruth Finnegan: Performancing: The Enactor’s Reality ? Pekka Hakamies: The Concept of Equal Validity in Narratives of Soviet Experience in the Former Finnish Karelia ? William Hansen: Trapping the Intruder: A Narrative Pattern in Homer’s Odyssey ? Lee Haring: A Creole Narrative Grammar ? Frank J. Korom: Religious Nationalisms Compared: The Curious Cases of India and Serbia ? Isaac Jack Levy/Rosemary Levy Zumwalt: Djuha at Home on the Isle of Rhodes, Italy, and in Georgia, United States ? MD Abdullah al Mamum/Simon J. Bronner: A Quantitative Cross-Cultural Analysis of Folk Crafts in Relation to Foreign Aid in Developing Countries ? Ulrich Marzolph: "Ceci n’est point une fable": Tale Type ATU 63, The Fox Rids Himself of Fleas, from Popular Tradition to Natural History (and Back Again) ? Jay Mechling: Folklore and the Emotional Brain ? Wolfgang Mieder: "Proverbs Are Worth a Thousand Words": The Global Spread of American Proverbs ? Margaret A. Mills: Magic and Libel: Contexts for Muslim Memories of the Jewish Community of Herat, Afghanistan ? Amos Noy: "Do You Want to Hear a Secret?": Secret-Telling as an Oral Genre ? Dorothy Noyes: In Praise of Formalism: Teaching Samson’s Riddles in a Diverse Classroom ? Joseph Russo: Giuseppe Pitre’s Sicilian Folktales: Text and Performance, Prose and Poetry ? Jack Santino: The Vernacular Sacred ? Amy Shuman: Tradition and Embodied Knowledge in an Artisan Community ? Ulo Valk: Folk Narrative Genres, Liminality and Epistemological Uncertainty ? Stephen D. Winick: From Wheccumquek to Quink- Quankeo: "The Fals Fox," "The Fox and the Goose," and the Folk Ballad ? Eli Yassif: From Ginzberg’s Legends of the Bible to Ben-Amos’s Folktales of the Jews: Towards a History of Jewish Folk Narratives and Its Study ? Yael Zerubavel: The Shepherd, the Well, and the Jug: National Memory and Symbolic Bridges to Antiquity in Modern Hebrew Culture ? Juwen Zhang: Motif as Symbol in Context ? Jack Zipes: Waking Henry Iliowizi, Or, How Jews and Gentiles Have Something to Learn from the Dead.