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Subject(s)

• Folklore—Europe, Eastern—History [Browse]
• Folk literature—Europe, Eastern—History and criticism [Browse]

Related name

• Beissinger, Margaret H., 1954- [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

This handbook provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of the Slavic and east European world. It covers national, ethnic, racial, religious, and linguistic groups from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, central Europe, and the Balkans, including Muslim, Jewish, and Romani minority communities. The volume contains five large thematic sections: the folklore and song genres of the life cycle (wedding, birth, and death rites); calendrical-cycle traditions, magic, and folk belief; oral poetic and prose narrative; music, dance, and song (ritual, lyric, folk, and popular forms); short verbal genres: humorous rhymes, proverbs, riddles, and jokes; and material culture (folk art, architecture, and foodways). The authors in the volume comprise an international team of specialists. Their chapters cover folklore of the Middle Ages through the twenty-first century. Accordingly, some chapters treat the very “traditional,” while others, especially those based on fieldwork, address contemporary issues that are religious, social, or political in nature.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part I Life-Cycle Folklore
• Part II The Traditional Calendar, Magic, and Folk Belief
• Part III Oral Traditional Narrative
• Part IV Music, Song, Identity, and Performance
• Part V The Folklore of Everyday Life.

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Also available online.

ISBN

• 9780190080778
• 0190080779

OCLC

1453071110

Other standard number

• CIPO000200708

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