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Foreword
Michael Dylan Foster and Ray Cashman

Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century
Alan Dundes

Introduction
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
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

Responses
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

Afterwords
Reflections on Grand Theory, Graduate School, and Intellectual Ballast
Chad Edward Buterbaugh

Ten Years After
Lee Haring

Grand Theory in Folkloristics

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 19/09/2016
      ISBN13: 9780253024398, 978-0253024398
      ISBN10: 0253024390

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Foreword
      Michael Dylan Foster and Ray Cashman

      Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century
      Alan Dundes

      Introduction
      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
      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

      Responses
      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

      Afterwords
      Reflections on Grand Theory, Graduate School, and Intellectual Ballast
      Chad Edward Buterbaugh

      Ten Years After
      Lee Haring

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