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A Celebration of American family folklore : tales and traditions from the Smithsonian collection Steven J. Zeitlin, Amy J. Kotkin, Holly Cutting Baker
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks SCS GR 105 .C34 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Festival of American Folklife., Family Folklore Program Family Folklore Program.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--United States--Folklore.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, ©1982.
- Summary:
- From the Family Folklore Program of the Smithsonian's Folklife festival.
- Contents:
- Family folklore: the creative expression of a common past
- The forms of family lore
- Family stories
- Heroes
- Rogues
- Mischief makers
- Survivors
- Innocents
- Migrations
- Lost fortunes
- Courtships
- Family feuds
- Supernatural happenings
- Other stories
- Stories for children
- Family expressions
- Family customs
- Family photography
- Family albums
- Other ways of preserving the past
- Five American families
- The wedding dance / Steven J. Zeitlin
- She comes by it honestly: characterization in family folklore / Amanda Dargan
- Getting the butter from the duck: proverbs and proverbial expressions in an Afro-American family / Dennis W. Folly
- How many are on our side?" growing up in Greenwich Village / Anne Warner
- Blessing the ties that bind: storytelling at family festivals / Margaret Yocom
- How to collect your own family folklore.
- Notes:
- Collected from the Family Folklore Program of the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Celebration of American family folklore.
- ISBN:
- 0394520955
- 9780394520957
- 0394712234
- 9780394712239
- OCLC:
- 8473993
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