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Article: Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture.(Book review)
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- Folklore
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- August 1, 2006
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Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture. Edited by Burt Feintuch. Urbana and Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 248 pp. 15.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk), 42.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 0-252-07109-3 (pbk), 0-252-02806-0 (hbk)
In 1995 The Journal of American Folklore published a mammoth issue that sought to contextualise and problematise some of the terms folklorists take for granted. This special issue, "Common Ground: Keywords for the Study of Expressive Culture," edited by Burt Feintuch, quickly became a central reference within folkloristics. Eight years later, the University of Illinois Press republished this special issue as a ...