Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music by Thomas A. Green

By Thomas A. Green

Folklore emphasizes these our bodies of North American and ecu scholarship that experience prompted one another so much profoundly because the discipline's inception. The entries offer an creation that enables the pursuit of extra really good issues and different our bodies of scholarship.

Topics variety from such conventional matters as "festival" and "folktale" to state of the art entries reminiscent of "computer-mediated folklore" and "postmodernism." regularly, an extended, extra complete essay layout for entries has been preferred over shorter entries. Entries are cross-referenced, and every contains a choose bibliography to function a advisor to intensive research.

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Journal of American Folklore Supplement, pp. 10–11. 10 ACCULTURATION A CCULTURATION Cultural modification of groups’ and individuals’ material culture, behaviors, beliefs, and values caused by borrowing from or adapting to other cultures. Whenever cultures regularly contact one another, change takes place in a limited number of ways: One group may destroy the other, one may completely adopt the other’s culture and become a part of it, the two may merge to create a fusion culture, or both may adapt and borrow from one another.

The Folklore Historian 8:38–55. Bynum, David E. 1974. Child’s Legacy Enlarged: Oral Literary Studies at Harvard since 1856. Harvard Library Bulletin 22:237–267. Dorson, Richard M. 1950. The Growth of Folklore Courses. Journal of American Folklore 63:345–359. ———. 1972. The Academic Future of Folklore. In Richard M. Dorson, Folklore: Selected Essays. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Leach, MacEdward. 1958. Folklore in American Colleges and Universities. Journal of American Folklore Supplement, pp.

Research on acculturation published in the 1980s and 1990s supports earlier research and agrees with previous discoveries—though in different language—that acculturation must be recorded and studied as a multivariate and multidimensional process. This research develops and employs highly sophisticated statistical models and tools that enable quantitative analysis as a supplement to the earlier classic qualitative studies. The researchers who are 12 AESTHETICS developing this approach to understanding acculturation emphasize the psychological consequences of acculturation upon individuals.

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