Table of Contents:
  • Nº 1 (1985) : Nationalistic Inferiority Complexes and the Fabrication of Fakelore: A Reconsideration of Ossian, the Kinder- und Hausmärchen, the Kalevala, and Paul Bunyan / Alan Dundes
  • The Many Abodes of Fata Morgana or the Quest for Meaning in Fairy Tales / Bengt Holbek
  • Do Fairy Tales Make Sense? / Michèle Simonsen
  • Empty Texts, Full Meanings: On Transformal Meaning in Folklore / Lauri Honko
  • A Literary Folkloristic Methodology for the Study of Meaning in Personal Narrative / Sandra K. Dolby-Stahl.
  • Nº 2-3 (1985) : Folklore and Semiotics: An Introduction / Janet L. Langlois
  • Semiotics and Traditional Lore: The Medieval Dragon Tradition / Jonathan D. Evans
  • The Poetic Rites of Conversation / John H. McDowell
  • Risks in Verbal Art Performance / Kwesi Yankah
  • The Rodeo Clown and the Semiotics of Metaphor / Beverly J. Stoeltje
  • "The Taking of the Renwick": The Celebration of the Day of the Dead and the Latino Community in Washington, D. C. / Olivia Cadaval.
  • Nº 1 (1986) : Psychic Ambiguity at the Legend Core / Carl Lindahl
  • Structural Analysis of the Female Warrior Ballads: The Landscape of a World Turned Upside down / Dianne M. Dugaw
  • Haring's Herring: Theoretical Implications of the "Malagasy Tale Index" / Daniel J. Crowley
  • Methodology and Research Notes : "That's How the Seder Looks": A Fieldwork Account of Videotaping Family Folklore / Sharon R. Sherman.
  • Nº 2-3 (1986) : Introduction: [Special Double Issue: The Comparative Method in Folklore] / Linda Dégh
  • Theoretical Considerations: The Pervasiveness in Contemporary Folklore Studies of Assumptions, Concepts, and Constructs Usually Associated with the Historic-Geographic Method / Robert A. Georges
  • Types of Comparison and Forms of Variation / Lauri Honko
  • The Anthropologist and the Comparative Method in Folklore / Alan Dundes
  • Methods of Application: Structural and Thematic Applications of the Comparative Method: A Case Study of "The Kind and Unkind Girls" / Steven Swann Jones
  • The Construction of Folktales / Christine Goldberg
  • Questions Arising in the Comparative Study of Magic Tales / Satu Apo and Susan Sinisalo
  • Variation in the Incantation and Mythical Thinking: The Scope of Comparative Research / Anna-Leena Siikala
  • The Units of Comparison in the Study of Baltic-Finnish Laments / Aili Nenola and Susan Sinisalo
  • Modern Folklore: Problems of Comparative Research / Leea Virtanen.
  • Nº 1 (1987) : Forensic Pathology and the European Vampire / Paul Barber
  • The Concept of Ecotypes in American Folklore / Timothy Cochrane
  • Parricide and Treason for Love: The Study of a Motif-Complex in Legend and Folktale / Arthur A. Wachsler.
  • Nº 2 (1987) : Child Ballads in the West Indies: Familiar Fabulations, Creole Performances / Roger D. Abrahams
  • South Indian Folklore Studies: Growth and Development / Jawaharlal Handoo
  • Coming to Terms with the Past: The Depiction of "Volkskunde" in the Third Reich since 1945 / Mary Beth Stein.
  • Nº 3 (1987) : Ed Bell, Texas Storyteller: The Framing and Reframing of Life Experience / Richard Bauman
  • Community and Boundary: Personal Experience Stories of Mushroom Collectors / Gary Alan Fine
  • Generating Lives: The Construction of an Autobiography / Elliott Oring.
  • Nº 1-2 (1988) : Performance in Contemporary African Arts: A Prologue / Ruth M. Stone
  • Image, Parody, and Debate: Levels in Mende Narrative Performance / Donald Cosentino
  • Laughter at Marriage: Subversion in Performance / Ivan Karp
  • The Intensity Factor in African Music / J. H. Kwabena Nketia
  • Performance, Style, and the Assertion of Identity in Malian Puppet Drama / Mary Jo Arnoldi
  • Interpretation, Invention, and Re-Presentation in the Worship of Mami Wata / Henry John Drewal.
  • Nº 3 (1988) : Introduction: Feminist Revisions / Beverly J. Stoeltje
  • Omission in Emberá (Chocó) Mythography / Stephanie Kane
  • Lönnrot's Brainchildren: The Representation of Women in Finland's "Kalevala" / Patricia E. Sawin
  • Gender Representations in Performance: The Cowgirl and the Hostess / Beverly J. Stoeltje.
  • Nº 1 (1989) : Introduction: Richard M. Dorson's Conceptual and Methodological Concerns / Robert A. Georges
  • Richard M. Dorson and the Emergence of the New Class in American Folk Studies / Jay Mechling
  • Representative Man: Richard Dorson, Americanist / Roger D. Abrahams
  • Richard M. Dorson as Romantic-Nationalist / William A. Wilson
  • Dorson's Use and Adaptation of Prevailing Historical Models of American Folklore / Stephen Stern
  • The Historical Folklore of Richard M. Dorson / Dan Ben-Amos
  • Style as Substance: Dorson as an Author of Folklore Scholarship / Marsha Siefert.
  • Nº 2 (1989) : Calvino's Journey: Modern Transformations of Folktale, Story, and Myth / Cristina Bacchilega
  • The Hoarding Ritual in Germanic Epic Tradition / Wade Tarzia
  • Authoring Lives / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
  • Legends as Life Strategies for Aspirant Saints in the Later Middle Ages / Gábor Klaniczay.
  • Nº 3 (1989) : "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways": Nostalgia and Folk Poetry in Ontario / Pauline Greenhill
  • Names and Proverbs among the Vute (Cameroon): Signification, Meaning and Value / Jean-Louis Siran
  • Methodology and Research Notes: Making/Breaking: Notes on Writing Culture / Gregory Schrempp.
  • Nº 1-2 (1990) : Introduction: Discourse as an Integrating Concept in Anthropology and Folklore Research / Ellen B. Basso
  • Manipulating Time in an Amazonian Society: Genre and Event among the Shuar / Janet Wall Hendricks
  • Weeping as a Meta-Signal in a Mexicano Woman's Narrative / Jane H. Hill
  • Double-Talk in the Andes: Ambiguous Discourse as Means of Surviving Contact / Susan Paulson
  • The Community-Building Mission of Kamsá Ritual Language / John H. McDowell
  • On Play, Joking, Humor, and Tricking among the Kuna: The Agouti Story / Joel Sherzer
  • Poetic Transformations of Narrative Discourse in an Amazonian Society / Jonathan D. Hill
  • The Last Cannibal / Ellen B. Basso.
  • Nº 3 (1990) : Tags and Burners, Cycles and Networks: Folklore in the Telectronic Age / John Dorst
  • Versos por Angelito: Poetry and Its Function at the Wake of a Peasant Child in Chile / Marcela Orellana
  • Modes of Characterization in Religious Narrative: Jewish Folk Legends about Miracle Worker Rabbis / Haya Bar-Itzhak
  • Encounters with Folklore: Humor of the Palestinian "Intifada" / Sharif Kanaana
  • The Role of Oral Traditions in the War of National Liberation in Zimbabwe: Preliminary Observations / Emmanuel Chiwome.
  • Nº 1 (1991) : Power and the Circuit of Formal Talk / Kwesi Yankah
  • "Down with BCP, Down with UDF, and Down with Both BAP Parties!": Political Slogans through the Eyes of the Folklorist / Radost Ivanova
  • Methodology and Research Notes: Women's Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography as Feminist and Emergent / Elaine J. Lawless
  • Strategies for Translating Serbo-Croatian Traditional Oral Narrative / John Miles Foley.
  • Nº 2-3 (1991) : Labor Song: An Ambiguous Legacy / Archie Green
  • The Southern Textile Song Tradition Reconsidered / Doug DeNatale and Glenn Hinson
  • Shack Bullies and Levee Contractors: Bluesmen as Ethnographers / John Cowley
  • The Brotherhood of Timber Workers and the Culture of Conflict / Jeff Ferrell
  • "The Waterman Train Wreck": Tracking a Folksong in Deep East Texas / John Minton
  • "An Icy Mountain Brook": Revival, Aesthetics, and the "Coal Creek March" / Neil V. Rosenberg.