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May I direct your attention at:

The Meaning of Folklore. The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes

Contents: (...) 11. Much Ado About “Sweet Bugger All”: Getting to the Bottom of a Puzzle in British Folk Speech 211 12. Grouping Lore: Scientists and Musicians 229 (A) Science in Folklore? Folklore in Science? 232 (B) Viola Jokes: A Study of Second String Humor 237 13. Medical Speech and Professional Identity 249 (A) The Gomer: A Figure of American Hospital Folk Speech 252 (B) “When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think Horses, Not Zebras”: A Folk Medical Diagnostic Proverb 264 Part III: Symbol and Mind 14. Getting the Folk and the Lore Together 273 15. Gallus as Phallus: A Psychoanalytic Cross-Cultural Consideration of the Cockfight as Fowl Play 285 (...)  18. Theses on Feces: Scatological Analysis 352 (A) The Folklore of Wishing Wells 355 (B) Here I Sit: A Study of American Latrinalia 360

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Cracking Jokes: Studies of Sick Humor Cycles & Stereotypes

Insightful, surprising, controversial and thought-provoking analyses of the jokes that have been told for years… now in its 30th Anniversary Edition. “No piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something — even if neither the...

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Latrinalia NKUA

The Archive of Bathroom Graffiti from Greece and from around the World

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Propp v. Levi-Strauss

1928 Morphology of the Folktale published.

- 31 funtions which he claimed defined the Russian fairy taleAT types 300-749.

 - to Levi-Strauss, there was an order, but it was not as important or rigid as what Propp worked with

-  Levi-Strauss is explicit on this point: "Finally, one detail in the Bororo myth that remained incomprehensible when viewed from the angle of syntagmatical relations, becomes clear when compared to a corresponding detail in the Kayapo myth"  -- more interested in "paradigmatic structure", a comparative format

- "Levi-Strauss's methodology is consistent and explicit: "By dividing the myth into sequences not always clearly indicated by the plot, and by relating each sequence to paradigmatic sets capable of giving them a meaning, we eventually found ourselves in a position to define the fundamental characteristics of a myth..." (1979:199). Sometimes the comparative paradigm could come from within the same culture as the original myth; sometimes from without."

- if it's about how the world came to be, myth. if it's considered historical, legend. all else, sort of, is folklore.

-even Levi-Strauss was mistaken on this point, citing Oedipus as a "myth" in an analysis

Levi-Strauss, "The Structural Study of Myth"

Dundes, Alan. "Binary Opposition in Myth: The Propp/Levi-Strauss Debate in Retrospect." Western Folklore 56.1 (1997): 39-50. Print.