Product Description: Most of Richard Dorson's thirty years as a folklorist have been spent collecting tales and legends in the remote backcountry, far from the centers of population. For Land of the Millrats, he extended his search for folk traditions to one of the most heavily industrialized sections of the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Revolutionary War comes to life in true accounts by actual participants in America's struggle for independence. A doctor describes his experience with George Washington's army during their winter at Valley Forge, a naval hero recounts his exploits at sea with John Paul Jones, and women tell of flirtations with officers in the Continental Army...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays discuss topics of research in American folklore, and the interpretations, methods, and presentation of that research

Product Description: Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the trustees of the British Museum: numbering into the thousands and of great cultural and historical significance...read more

Product Description: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact...read more

Product Description: Book by Dorson, Gloria

Folktales and legends provide a window on American culture and values over two centuries

Product Description: 1968-1st Univ of chicago. 8vo., 518pp., photo illus., index. Fine in Good DJ.

Product Description: The word "folklore" was coined in 1846 by an English antiquary, William John Thoms, although Professor Dorson's intellectual history of the folklore movement shows that the study of folklore had its origins in an earlier period. Educated men and women in many fields, especially in Victorian times, succumbed to the fascination of noting curious tales and odd rituals both at home and abroad...read more

Product Description: In Folk Legends of Japan, Dr. Richard M. Dorson has presented representative legends from all over Japan, from northern Honshu to Shikoku and Kyushui.

Studies the periods and influences in American folk culture from the Colonial era to the present day including a survey of prominent folk heroes

Product Description: Here, grounded firmly in American history, is a skilled folklorist's survey of the entire field of America's folklore—from colonization to mass culture.Tracing the forms and content of American folklore, Mr. Dorson reveals the richness, pathos, and humor of genuine folklore, which he distinguishes from the "fakelore" of popularizers and chauvinists...read more

Product Description: Book by Dorson, Richard Mercer