The Challenge of American Folklore to the Humanities

American Folklore consists of traditional knowledge and cultural practices engaged by inhabitants of the United States below Canada and above Mexico. American folklorists were influenced by nineteenth-century European humanistic scholarship that identified in traditional stories, songs, and speech a...

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Main Author: Simon J. Bronner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-02-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/1/17