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Grand theory in folkloristics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Haring, Lee (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2016
Series:Encounters : explorations in folklore and ethnomusicology
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Folkloristics in the twenty-first century / Alan Dundes
  • America's antitheoretical folkloristics / Lee Haring
  • The sweep of knowledge : the politics of grand and local theory in folkloristics / Gary Alan Fine
  • What('s) theory? / Margaret A. Mills
  • The philology of the vernacular : grand theory versus prevailing theory in American folklore / Richard Bauman
  • Humble theory / Dorothy Noyes
  • Grand theory, nationalism, and American folklore / John W. Roberts
  • There is no grand theory in Germany, and for good reason / James R. Dow
  • What theory is / Newton Garver
  • Weak theory in an unfinished world / Kathleen Stewart
  • "Or in other words" : recasting grand theory / Kirin Narayan
  • Disciplining folkloristics / Charles L. Briggs
  • Reflections on grand theory, graduate school, and intellectual ballast / Chad Edward Buterbaugh
  • Ten years after / Lee Haring.