This book fills the long-felt need for an organized collection of scholarly studies in American folklore.

Since 1934 the Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin has been a respected source on the wonderfully diverse history and traditions of the Volunteer State, but unt

Folklore has long explored food as a core component of life, linked to identity, aesthetics, and community and connecting individuals to larger contexts of hist

This lively reader traces the search for American tradition and national identity through folklore and folklife from the 19th century to the present. Through an

Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This new volume brings together classi