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Title Parsing through customs : essays by a Freudian folklorist / Alan Dundes.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
Creation Date 2003
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.
English
Content Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Psychoanalytic Study of Folklore -- 2. Heads or Tails: A Psychoanalytic Study of Potlatch -- 3. The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes (with Jerry W. Leach and Bora Ozkok) -- 4. The Piropo and the Dual Image of Women in the Spanish-Speaking World (with Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco) -- 5. Couvade in Genesis -- 6. The Symbolic Equivalence of Allomotifs in the Rabbit-Herd (AT 570) -- 7. The American Game of "Smear the Queer" and the Homosexual Component of Male Competitive Sport and Warfare -- Bibliography -- Index.
Extent 1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010711214105171
MARC RECORDS
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