"... excellent book... " —The Classical Outlook"... brief and readable... There is good tonic in these pages for the serious student of oral tradition... a remarkable book." —Asian
"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it." —Bruno Nettl"... a praiseworthy combin
"These essays... are of immense importance to anyone interested in the issues of origins and folklore texts."A —Choice"... this is Bascom at his best.... an attractive and full-bodied book." —FabulaTh
Although this volume is described as a Festschrift in honor of Kevin J. McKenna (professor of Russian language, literature, and culture at U. of Vermont) it differs from most such works in presenting
Not only are proverbs used as much today as ever, argues Mieder (German and folklore, U. of Vermont), they are still being crafted at a swift rate. He considers popular views of the proverb, the prove
A specialists in proverbs, Mieder (German and folklore, U. of Vermont) updates references on them that are 75, 100, and 150 years old now, drawing on scholarship of the past seven decades or so. He wr
A linguist working with German, Dutch, and Indo-European generally, Piirainen identifies linguistic idioms that are common to many or most European languages. She collaborated with 250 scholars who ar
The book is both a continuation of "Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond" (2012) and differs from it by new insights into the similarities of the European languages. Using comprehensive data from 77
China is home to one of the largest and oldest societies in the world, and presently contains fifty-six ethnic groups. Among them is the Zhuang, the largest of the minority populations, which partakes
Dagara Verbal Art examines verbal art among the Dagara people of West Africa. It provides invaluable primary material for research, and does a close analysis of folktale narration, proverb usage, ridd
An important goal of Mieder's (German and folklore, U. of Vermont) study is to demonstrate how the original, history, dissemination, and meaning of a proverb or proverbial expression can be studied. F
