TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bendix,Regina
TI  - In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies
SN  - 9780299155438
AV  - GR48 
U1  - 398/.0973 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Folklore-United States-History
KW  - Folklore-Philosophy
KW  - Folklore-Germany-History
KW  - Authenticity (Philosophy)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Instrumentalization of Authenticity -- 1. Poetry, History, and Democracy: Locating Authenticity -- 2. From Experience to Representation: The Onset of a Scientific Search for Authenticity -- 3. American Romanticism and the Emergence of Folklore Studies -- Part 2: The Role of Authenticity in Shaping Folkloristic Theory, Application, and Institutionalization -- 4. Latent Authenticity Quests in Folklore Definitions and Theories in Turn-of-the-Century Germany -- 5. Defining a Field, Defining America -- Part 3: Questioning the Canon -- 6. Departures and Revisions: Toward a Volkskunde Without Canon -- 7. From Fakelore to the Politics of Culture: The Changing Contours of American Folkloristics -- 8. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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