Book description
A Companion to Folklore
presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from
international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in
depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the
vitality of folklore research across the globe.
- An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays
on folklore authored by international experts
- Examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to
understand the phenomena of folklore
- Considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics
that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual
and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as
well as the social base of folklore
- Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Regina Bendix
is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at
Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany. She is the author of
In Search of Authenticity
, and has co-edited
Prädikat Heritage
(with Dorothee Hemme and Markus Tauschek),
Cultural Property: Forschungsperspektiven
(with Kilian Bizer and Stefan Groth), and
Culture and Property
(Special Issue of Ethnologia Europaea, co-edited with Valdimar Hafstein).
Galit Hasan-Rokem is Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of
Folklore, and Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Mandel Institute
of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the
author of Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic
Literature, and Tales of the Neighborhood: Jewish Narrative
Dialogues in Late Antiquity. She is a published poet in Hebrew
and translation and has co-edited The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist
Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology (with
Shirley Kaufman and Tamar Hess).
