Introduction to the Special Issue “<i>The Challenge of Folklore to the Humanities</i>”

Five and a half decades ago, when Stith Thomson was the doyen of American folklore studies, he published his essay “The Challenge of Folklore” in<em> PMLA</em>, a leading journal of the Humanities (Thompson 1964) [...]

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Main Author: Dan Ben-Amos
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