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In Defense of Literary Dialect: A Response to Dennis R. Preston
(Journal of American Folklore, 1983)
If folklorists were to accept Dennis R. Preston's (1982) charges against their attempts to record dialect in print, they might feel embarrassed that their textmaking of the 1970s was so bad. Few folklorists would like to ...
Object and Character in The Dark Is Rising
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1986)
American Wildlife Policy and Environmental Ideology: Poisoning Coyotes, 1939-1972
(University of California Press, 1986-08)
Diviners and Divination in Aristophanic Comedy
(University of California Press, 1989-04)
Review: Traditional American Indian Literatures: Texts and Interpretations
(Journal of American Folklore, 1983)
This book is a welcome addition to studies of American Indian folklore and ethnopoetics. Karl Kroeber has compiled five essays by himself, Jarold Ramsey, Dennis Tedlock, Barre Toelken and Tacheeni Scott, and Dell Hymes to ...
Ideology and the Clamshell Identity - Organizational Dilemmas in the Antinuclear Power Movement
(University of California Press, 1986-06)
This ethnographic study examines the role of ideology in the development of organizational dilemmas in the Clamshell Alliance, an anti-nuclear protest group active in New England during the late 1970s. In 1977, the Alliance ...
Values for Varmints: Predator Control and Environmental Ideas, 1920-1939
(University of California Press, 1984)
Review: Don't Go Up Kettle Creek: Verbal Legacy of the Upper Cumberland
(Journal of American Folklore, 1984)
In Don't Go Up Kettle Creek, Montell reconstructs the history of the Upper Cumberland River region "as it is perceived from the vernacular point of view, relying on personal reminiscences, oral traditions, balladry and ...
An Exchange of Opinion - MacArthur, Quezon, and Executive Order Number One--Another View
(University of California Press, 1983)
Work Values, Job Characteristics, and Gender
(University of California Press, 1987-07)
This study uses ordinal regression analysis to examine the impact of gender on work values, after controlling for various organizational variables. The analysis is based on a complete enumeration of women in a large ...