"American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining theintellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interestinghistorical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in theirintroductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the bookbefore their qualifying exams."

-- FolkloreForum ..". a welcome overview of the discipline in NorthAmerica and the practitioners who established it."

-- AmericanAnthropologist In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the splitbetween literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked atliterary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture ofthe people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.

Foreword by Alan Dundes

Preface

1. Discipline and Identity

2. American Folklore Studies: Field and Scope

3. The Schism in Folklore

4. Literary Folklorists

5. The Anthropological Folklorists

6. Approaches to Folklore: The Literary and the Anthropological

7. Remnants of the past in the present: Conflict in Contemporary Folklore Theory

Notes

Archival Sources

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index