Description |
1 online resource (212 pages) |
Series |
Publications of the American Folklore Society, New series |
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Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered)
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Contents |
Introduction: Toward a Framework for Contemporary Legends -- I. Sexual Fantasies. I. Evaluating Psychoanalytic Folklore: Are Freudians Ever Right? 2. The Promiscuous Cheerleader: An Adolescent Male Legend / Gary Alan Fine and Bruce Noel Johnson. 3. Welcome to the World of AIDS: Fantasies of Female Revenge -- II. Dangerous Products. 4. Cokelore and Coke Law: Urban Belief Tales and the Problem of Multiple Origins. 5. Folklore Diffusion Through Interactive Social Networks: Conduits in a Preadolescent Community. 6. The Kentucky Fried Rat: Legends and Modern Society -- III. Dangerous Capitalism. 7. The Goliath Effect: Corporate Dominance and Mercantile Legends. 8. Mercantile Legends and the World Economy: Dangerous Imports from the Third World. 9. Among Those Dark Satanic Mills: Rumors of Kooks, Cults, and Corporations -- IV. Corporate Redemption. 10. Redemption Rumors: Mercantile Legends and Corporate Beneficence. 11. Redemption Rumors and the Power of Ostension |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Sex -- Folklore.
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Money -- Folklore
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Money.
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Sex.
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Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
91046237 |
ISBN |
0870497545 |
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9780870497544 |
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0870497553 |
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9780870497551 |
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