Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists by Richard M. Dorson

Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists

Richard M. Dorson

761 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

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The word "folklore" was coined in 1846 by an English antiquary, William John Thoms, although Professor Dorson's intellectual history of the folklore movement shows that the study of folklore had its origins in an earlier period. Educated men and w...

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