Encyclopedia of American Folklife

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ISBN: 9780765680525 | 0765680521
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/15/2006

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Offers approximately 270 essays on topics in American folklife as diverse as chain letters, the Internet, Little Havana, fans of heavy metal music, Wiccans, and zydeco.

Topic Finder	p. vii
Family	p. 351
Fans, Automobile Racing	p. 354
Fans, Extreme Metal	p. 358
Fans, Heavy Metal	p. 360
Farmers	p. 362
Feminism	p. 367
Fetishes	p. 369
Filipino Communities	p. 373
Film and Video	p. 376
Finnish Communities	p. 380
Firefighters	p. 385
Fishing Communities	p. 389
Folk Art	p. 392
Folk Festivals	p. 395
Folk Music and Song	p. 398
Folk Society	p. 402
Folk Speech and Language	p. 405
Folklife and Folk Culture	p. 410
Folklife Organizations	p. 414
Folklore	p. 419
Folklorists	p. 422
Foodways	p. 426
Fourth of July and Juneteenth	p. 428
Franco-American Communities	p. 434
Fraternal Organizations	p. 437
French Canadian Communities	p. 443
Function and Functionalism	p. 445
Gamblers and Gambling	p. 450
Games, Drinking	p. 457
Games and Toys	p. 460
Gangs	p. 467
Gangs, Youth	p. 471
Gardens and Gardening	p. 473
Gay Communities	p. 477
Gay Fire Island	p. 481
Gay San Francisco	p. 483
Geography	p. 485
German Communities	p. 488
Germans, Great Plains	p. 493
Gestures	p. 496
Gospel Music	p. 499
Goths	p. 503
Gravemarkers	p. 506
Great Plains Indians	p. 510
Great Plains Region	p. 513
Greek Communities	p. 519
Grottoes	p. 523
Guam	p. 527
Gullah, or Geechee, Communities	p. 529
Hair	p. 536
Haitian Communities	p. 541
Halloween	p. 545
Hare Krishna	p. 548
Harlem	p. 552
Hasidim and Misnagidim (Haredim)	p. 557
Hawaiians, Native	p. 560
Healing, Faith	p. 565
Healing and Medicine	p. 568
Hillbillies	p. 572
Hindus	p. 575
Hip-Hop	p. 577
History and Heritage	p. 580
Hmong Communities	p. 585
Holidays	p. 588
Hospitals	p. 592
Houses	p. 596
Houston	p. 602
Humor	p. 606
Hungarian Communities	p. 612
Hunting	p. 616
Hutterites	p. 619
Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge	p. 623
Internet	p. 627
Irish, Boston	p. 630
Irish, Chicago	p. 631
Irish Communities	p. 633
Italian Communities	p. 639
Italian Community, Detroit	p. 642
Japanese Communities	p. 646
Japantowns	p. 649
Jewish Communities	p. 651
Jews, Crypto- and Protestant Millennialism	p. 659
Korean Communities	p. 664
Ku Klux Klan	p. 669
Landscape	p. 673
Lao Communities	p. 676
Las Vegas	p. 680
Latvian Communities	p. 686
Legends	p. 689
Lithuanian Communities	p. 696
Little Egypt	p. 700
Little Havana	p. 703
Little League Baseball and Youth Sports Organizations	p. 706
Little Sweden	p. 709
Loggers, Maine	p. 712
Los Angeles	p. 716
Love Feast	p. 720
Lumbering	p. 724
Lutherans	p. 728
General Index	p. I1
Cultural Group Index	p. I37
Geographical Index	p. I50
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Encyclopedia of American Folklife

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