International Folkloristics

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. In this volume, twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century.

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.

Chapter 1 Circular Concerning the Collecting of Folk Poetry
Chapter 2 Folk-Lore and the Origin of the Word
Chapter 3 Request
Chapter 4 An Angel Flew Through the Room
Chapter 5 The Study of Folk-Lore
Chapter 6 The Method of Julius Krohn
Chapter 7 The Message of the Folk-Lorist
Chapter 8 On the Need for a Bibliography of Folklore
Chapter 9 A Dialogue in Gyergyó-Kilényfalva
Chapter 10 In Search of Folktales and Songs
Chapter 11 Epic Laws of Folk Narrative
Chapter 12 The Rites of Passage
Chapter 13 The Principles of Sympathetic Magic
Chapter 14 The Structure of Russian Fairy Tales
Chapter 15 Observations on Folklore
Chapter 16 Geography and Folk-Tale Oicotypes
Chapter 17 Irish Tales and Story-Tellers
Chapter 18 Symbolism in Dreams
Chapter 19 Wedding Ceremonies in European Folklore
Chapter 20 Strategy in Counting Out: An Ethnographic Folklore Field Study
Chapter 21 Suggestions for Further Reading in the History of Folkloristics.