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Women and Folklore concerns itself with the growing body of English-language literature on women's folklore and culture. . . . There are 1,664 bibliographic citations, with a combined subject and name index containing some intriguing topics and names. A significant interdisciplinary bibliographic addition for high school, college, university and public libraries. Choice

Folklore Recycled starts from the proposition that folklore--usually thought of in its historical social context as -oral tradition---is easily appropriated and recycled into other contexts. That is, writers may use folklore in their fiction or poetry, taking plots, as an example, from a folktale. Visual artists may concentrate on depicting folk figures or events, like a ritual or a ceremony. Tourism officials may promote a place through advertising its traditional ways. Folklore may play a role in intellectual conceptualizations, as when nationalists use folklore to promote...