Encyclopedia of American Folklife
Encyclopedia of American Folklife
Editor: Bronner, Simon J.
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Single-User Purchase Price:
$158.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$237.00
ISBN: 978-0-7656-8052-5
Category: Social Sciences - Anthropology
Image Count:
210
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This fascinating encyclopedia explores the rich and varied cultural traditions of folklife in America -- from barn raisings to the Internet, tattoos, and Zydeco -- through expressions that include ritual, custom, crafts, architecture, food, clothing, and art.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A
- Adolescents
- Aesthetics
- African American Communities
- Alaska
- Allegheny Region
- Altars
- Amana
- American Samoa
- Amish, Nebraska
- Amish, Old Order
- Animals
- Appalachia
- Arab Communities
- Archives and Libraries
- Armenian Communities
- Art Environments
- Atlanta
- Atlas
- Automobiles
- B
- Baltimore
- Banjo
- Baptists, Old Regular
- Barn Raising
- Barns
- Baskets and Basketry
- Basque Communities
- Belief
- Bikers
- Birth
- Blue Ridge Region
- Bluegrass Music
- Blues
- Body Modification and Tattooing
- Bodybuilders and Weight Lifters
- Bosnian Communities
- Boston
- Boy Scouts
- Branding
- Brooklyn
- Buddhists
- Bulgarian Communities
- C
- Cajun Communities
- Cape Cod
- Cape Verdean Communities
- Carnival
- Carolina, Down East
- Carpatho-Rusyn Communities
- Catholic Charismatics
- Catholics
- Chain Letters
- Charleston and Lowcountry South Carolina
- Chicago
- Chicano and Mexican Communities
- Childhood
- Children's Groups
- Chinatowns
- Chinese Communities
- Christmas
- Church of the Brethren
- Cincinnati
- Cleveland
- Coastal Carolina Plain Region
- Cockfighting
- Communal Societies
- Communication
- Community and Group
- Consumerism
- Context
- Courtship
- Cowboys
- Craft
- Creoles, Louisiana
- Croatian Communities
- Croatians, Louisiana
- Cuban Communities
- Cults and Rumor-Panics, Satanic
- Cultural Register
- Czech Communities
- D
- Dance, Liturgical
- Dance, Secular
- Danish Communities
- Deaf Communities
- Death and Funerals
- Delmarva and the Eastern Shore Region
- Delta, Mississippi River
- Denver
- Des Moines
- Detroit
- Dialect
- Dialect Stories
- Dominican Communities
- Drama
- Dress and Costume
- E
- Easter
- Eastern Orthodox Christians
- Education
- El Paso
- Environment
- Estonian Communities
- Ethnic and Immigrant Folklife
- Ethnography and Fieldwork
- F
- Family
- Fans, Automobile Racing
- Fans, Extreme Metal
- Fans, Heavy Metal
- Farmers
- Feminism
- Fetishes
- Filipino Communities
- Film and Video
- Finnish Communities
- Firefighters
- Fishing Communities
- Folk Art
- Folk Festivals
- Folk Music and Song
- Folk Society
- Folk Speech and Language
- Folklife and Folk Culture
- Folklife Organizations
- Folklore
- Folklorists
- Foodways
- Fourth of July and Juneteenth
- Franco-American Communities
- Fraternal Organizations
- French Canadian Communities
- Function and Functionalism
- G
- Gamblers and Gambling
- Games, Drinking
- Games and Toys
- Gangs
- Gangs, Youth
- Gardens and Gardening
- Gay Communities
- Gay Fire Island
- Gay San Francisco
- Geography
- German Communities
- Germans, Great Plains
- Gestures
- Gospel Music
- Goths
- Gravemarkers
- Great Plains Indians
- Great Plains Region
- Greek Communities
- Grottoes
- Guam
- Gullah, or Geechee, Communities
- H
- Hair
- Haitian Communities
- Halloween
- Hare Krishna
- Harlem
- Hasidim and Misnagidim (Haredim)
- Hawaiians, Native
- Healing, Faith
- Healing and Medicine
- Hillbillies
- Hindus
- Hip-Hop
- History and Heritage
- Hmong Communities
- Holidays
- Hospitals
- Houses
- Houston
- Humor
- Hungarian Communities
- Hunting
- Hutterites
- I
- Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge
- Internet
- Irish, Boston
- Irish, Chicago
- Irish Communities
- Italian Communities
- Italian Community, Detroit
- J
- Japanese Communities
- Japantowns
- Jewish Communities
- Jews, Crypto- and Protestant Millennialism
- K
- Korean Communities
- Ku Klux Klan
- L
- Landscape
- Lao Communities
- Las Vegas
- Latvian Communities
- Legends
- Lithuanian Communities
- Little Egypt
- Little Havana
- Little League Baseball and Youth Sports Organizations
- Little Sweden
- Loggers, Maine
- Los Angeles
- Love Feast
- Lumbering
- Lutherans
- M
- Macedonian Communities
- Maine, Down East
- Märchen
- Mardi Gras
- Martial Artists
- Material Culture
- Medicine, Folk
- Memorial Day
- Memphis
- Men and Masculinity
- Mennonites
- Mennonites, Reformed
- Mennonites, Wenger
- Metal and Metalworkers
- Methodists
- Miami
- Middle Atlantic Region
- Midwest
- Migrant Workers and Hoboes
- Millennialists
- Milwaukee
- Miners, Anthracite
- Miners, Bituminous
- Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area
- Molokans
- Montagnard-Dega Communities
- Mormon Culture Region
- Mormon Fundamentalists
- Mormons
- Museums and Exhibitions
- Muslims
- N
- Names
- Narrative, Personal
- Nashville
- Nationalism
- Netherlands Dutch and Belgian Communities
- New England
- New Orleans
- New Year
- New York City
- Northern Appalachian Region (Catskills and Adirondacks)
- Northwest Coast
- Norwegian Communities
- Nuer Communities
- Nurses
- O
- Occupational Folklife
- Old German Baptist Brethren
- Old Order River Brethren
- Old-Age Communities
- Old-Time Music
- Oral and Folk History
- Organizations, Corporate and Work
- Organizations, Voluntary and Special-Interest
- Outsider Art
- Ozarks
- P
- Paper Arts
- Parades
- Pennsylvania Culture Region
- Pennsylvania German Communities
- Pentecostals
- Performance Approach And Dramatic Arts
- Philadelphia
- Photography
- Picnics
- Pittsburgh
- Place and Space
- Polish Communities
- Polka
- Popular Culture
- Portuguese-Speaking Communities
- Potlatch
- Pottery
- Powwowing
- Prisoners
- Proverbs and Sayings
- Psychobilly
- Psychology
- Public Folklife
- Puerto Rican Communities
- Punk
- Q
- Quakers
- Queens, Borough of
- Quilting
- R
- Railroaders
- Rangeley Lakes Region
- Recreational Vehicle Communities
- Region
- Religion
- Reunions
- Riddles and Riddling
- Rio Grande Border Region
- Rituals and Rites
- Rocky Mountain Cultural Region
- Rugs and Rug Making
- Russian Communities
- S
- Saddles and Saddle Making
- Sailors
- Saint Louis
- San Diego
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Santa Fe
- Scottish Communities
- Senegalese Communities
- September 11th
- Serbian, Slovenian, and Montenegrin Communities
- Shakers
- Shenandoah Valley Region
- Showers, Wedding and Baby
- Shrines and Crosses, Roadside
- Shrines and Memorials, Spontaneous and Vernacular
- Sicilian Communities
- Sikhs
- Skateboarders
- Skinheads
- Slovak Communities
- Snake-Handling Sects
- Soldiers
- South, The
- South Asian Communities
- Southeastern Indians
- Southwest
- Southwestern Indians
- Spiritualists
- Sports Teams
- Steelworkers
- Stone
- Storytelling
- Straight Edge
- Students
- Suburbs
- Supernatural
- Swedish Communities
- Symbol and Structure
- T
- Taxi Drivers
- Texas
- Text
- Thanksgiving
- Tibetans
- Toasts and Dozens
- Tradition and Culture
- Trial Lawyers
- Truck Drivers (Long-Haul Truckers)
- Tulsa
- Twelve-Step Groups
- U
- Ukrainian Communities
- Unions
- Urban Folklife
- V
- Vietnamese Communities
- Visual Culture
- Voodoo and Santería
- W
- Washington, D.C.
- Weddings and Marriage
- West African Communities
- Wiccans
- Wiregrass Region
- Women
- Wood
- Wrestling, Professional
- Z
- Zydeco
- Master Bibliography
- Books and Articles
- Web Sites