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Most cited in this library
The Ritual Process
2017 · 538 citations
The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture.
1984 · 285 citations
"Playing the Dozens"
1962 · 267 citations
Introductory Remarks to a Rhetorical Theory of Folklore
1968 · 185 citations
Phantoms of Romantic Nationalism in Folkloristics
1993 · 159 citations
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Toward an Enactment-Centered Theory of Folklore
Routledge eBooks
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2019
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1 author
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chapter
22
citations
Deep Down in the Jungle
Routledge eBooks
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2018
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1 author
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book
26
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The Ritual Process
Routledge eBooks
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2017
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2 authors
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book
538
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Liminality and Communitas
Routledge eBooks
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2017
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2 authors
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chapter
141
citations
Blues for New Orleans
University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks
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2006
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1 author
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book
34
citations
Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality
Western Folklore
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2006
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1 author
4
citations
Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul
Works - Scholarship, Research, & Creative Expression (Swarthmore College)
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2006
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1 author
16
citations
Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
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2005
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1 author
31
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Everyday Life
University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks
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2005
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1 author
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book
31
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Antick Dispositions and the Perilous Politics of Culture: Costume and Culture in Jacobean England and America
Journal of American Folklore
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1998
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1 author
4
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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South.
The American Historical Review
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1994
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2 authors
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other
57
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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South.
Journal of American History
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1993
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2 authors
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other
84
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After New Perspectives: Folklore Study in the Late Twentieth Century
Western Folklore
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1993
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1 author
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Open access
28
citations
Phantoms of Romantic Nationalism in Folkloristics
Journal of American Folklore
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1993
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1 author
159
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Jamaican Sayings, with Notes on Folklore, Aesthetics, and Social Control
Ethnohistory
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1992
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2 authors
7
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Myths of a Minority: The Changing Traditions of the Vincentian Caribs
Journal of American Folklore
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1987
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2 authors
33
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Complicity and Imitation in Storytelling: A Pragmatic Folklorist's Perspective
Cultural Anthropology
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1986
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1 author
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Open access
28
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Afro-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World
University of Florida Digital Collections (University of Florida)
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1985
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1 author
64
citations
Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition
Poetics Today
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1985
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2 authors
25
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"And Other Neighborly Names": Social Progress and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore
Ethnomusicology
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1985
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3 authors
21
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The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture.
Man
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1984
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2 authors
285
citations
Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts
Journal of American Folklore
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1984
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2 authors
120
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After Africa: Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries concerning the Slaves, Their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies.
Hispanic American Historical Review
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1984
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3 authors
71
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African folktales: Traditional stories of the Black world
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1983
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1 author
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book
43
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Calus: Symbolic Transformation in Romanian Ritual
Ethnomusicology
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1982
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2 authors
43
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A Festival of Guyanese Words
Journal of American Folklore
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1982
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2 authors
43
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Shouting Match at the Border: The Folklore of Display Events
University of Texas Press eBooks
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1981
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1 author
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chapter
42
citations
And Other Neighborly Names
University of Texas Press eBooks
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1981
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2 authors
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book
9
citations
Oral Repertoire and World View: An Anthropological Study of Marina Takalo's Life History
Ethnomusicology
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1981
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5 authors
15
citations
Movements Toward Understanding Humans Through the Anthropological Study of Dance [and Comments and Reply]
Current Anthropology
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1979
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14 authors
38
citations
Gossip, reputation, and knowledge in Zinacantan . By John Beard Haviland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Pp. vii, 260.
Language
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1979
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1 author
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other
4
citations
Oral literature and the formula . Edited by Benjamin A. Stolz and Richard S. Shannon. Ann Arbor: Center for the Coördination of Ancient and Modern Studies, 1976. Pp. xvii, 290. $4.00.
Language
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1977
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1 author
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other
51
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AFRO‐AMERICAN FOLK CULTURE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MATERIALS FROM NORTH, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES
Anthropology News
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1977
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2 authors
8
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The Literary Use of Proverbs
Journal of American Folklore
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1977
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1 author
23
citations
Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies
Ethnomusicology
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1977
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2 authors
17
citations
All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
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1977
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2 authors
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other
20
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10. The Complex Relations of Simple Forms
University of Texas Press eBooks
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1976
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1 author
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chapter
45
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Classical Persian Music: An Introduction
Notes
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1975
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12 authors
4
citations
Negotiating Respect: Patterns of Presentation among Black Women
Journal of American Folklore
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1975
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1 author
42
citations
Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies
Anuario Interamericano de Investigacion Musical
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1974
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3 authors
29
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Religious Cults of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Jamaica, and Haiti
Hispanic American Historical Review
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1973
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2 authors
124
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Language and Cultural Diversity in American Education
College Composition and Communication
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1973
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3 authors
118
citations
Christmas and Carnival on Saint Vincent
Western Folklore
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1972
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1 author
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Open access
22
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Folklore and Literature as Performance
Journal of the Folklore Institute
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1972
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1 author
24
citations
The training of the man of words in talking sweet
Language in Society
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1972
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1 author
54
citations
Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia.
Man
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1971
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2 authors
144
citations
Sense and Nonsense in St. Vincent: Speech Behavior and Decorum in a Caribbean Community1
American Anthropologist
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1971
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2 authors
70
citations
Personal Power and Social Restraint in the Definition of Folklore
Journal of American Folklore
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1971
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1 author
37
citations
Jump-Rope Rhymes: A Dictionary
Western Folklore
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1970
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2 authors
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Open access
26
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A Performance-Centred Approach to Gossip
Man
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1970
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1 author
102
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Anglo-American Folksong Style
Ethnomusicology
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1969
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2 authors
9
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Anglo-American Folksong Style
Journal of American Folklore
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1969
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3 authors
50
citations
Anglo-American Folksong Style
Notes
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1969
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3 authors
12
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Anglo-American Folksong Style
American Quarterly
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1969
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3 authors
36
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Introductory Remarks to a Rhetorical Theory of Folklore
Journal of American Folklore
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1968
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1 author
185
citations
I Could Talk Old-Story Good: Creativity in Bahamian Folklore
Journal of American Folklore
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1967
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2 authors
26
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The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in the British West Indies
Journal of Inter-American Studies
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1967
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1 author
15
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Journal of American Folklore
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1966
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5 authors
38
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Deep down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia
Western Folklore
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1966
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2 authors
78
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Deep down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia
Journal of American Folklore
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1965
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2 authors
65
citations