| Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist Contributor(s): Dundes, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299112640 ISBN-13: 9780299112646 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2003 Annotation: In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes's work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children's games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | History - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 398.019 |
| LCCN: 87001675 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.68" W x 8.68" (0.67 lbs) 232 pages |