Journal of Folklore Research

Volume 23, Nos. 2-3May-December 1986

Special Double Issue
The Comparative Method in Folklore

Linda Dégh, Guest Editor
Introduction / 77

Theoretical Considerations

Robert A. Georges
The Pervasiveness in Contemporary Folklore Studies of Assumptions, Concepts and Constructs Usually Associated with the Historic-Geographic Method / 87

Lauri Honko
Types of Comparison and Forms of Variation / 105

Alan Dundes
The Anthropologist and the Comparative Method in Folklore / 125

Methods of Application

Stephen Swann Jones
Structural and Thematic Applications of the Comparative Method / 147

Christine Goldberg
The Construction of Folktales / 163

Satu Apo
Questions Arising in the Comparative Study of Magic Tales / 177

Anna-Leena Siikala
Variation in the Incantation and Mythical Thinking: The Scope of Comparative Research / 187

Aili Nenola
The Units of Comparison in the Study of Balto-Finnic Laments / 205

Leea Virtanen
Modern Folklore: Problems of Comparative Research / 221

Conference Program
The Kalevala, the Comparative Method and Beyond: A Symposium of Finnish and American Folklorists / 233

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