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Daniel J. Crowley, ed. African Folklore in the New World. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. 91 pp. Motifs, taletypes indexes. $8.95 hardcover; $3.95 paper

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Daniel J. Crowley, ed. African Folklore in the New World. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. 91 pp. Motifs, taletypes indexes. $8.95 hardcover; $3.95 paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2017

Dan Ben-Amos*
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Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1978

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1 Dorson, Richard M., Negro Folktales in Michigan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Negro Tales from Pine Bluff, Arkansas and Calvin, Michigan. Indiana University Folklore Series No. 12. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958).

2 Dorson, Richard M., American Negro Folktales (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1967)Google Scholar.

3 Ibid., p. 15.

4 Ibid..

5 Dorson, Richard M., ed., African Folklore (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1972), p. 15.Google Scholar

6 Second edition, 6 vols. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958).

7 Second revision, FFC 184 (Helsinki: Academia Scientarum Fennica, 1961).

8 May A. Klipple, “African Folktales with Foreign Analogues” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1938); Helen L. Flowers, “A Classification of the Folktales of the West Indies by Types and Motifs” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1952).

9 Bascom, William, “Folklore Research in Africa,” Journal of American Folklore 77 (1964): 1231 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 See also the discussion of Piersen, William D., “An African Background for American Negro Folktales?Journal of American Folklore 84 (1971): 204214 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 Mintz, Sidney W. and Price, Richard, An Anthropological Approach to the Afro-American Past: A Caribbean Perspective. ISHI Occasional Papers in Social Change 2 (Philadelphia: The Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1976), p. 5 Google Scholar.