A Companion to Folklore -- CONTENTS -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Concepts and Phenomena -- Introduction: Concepts and Phenomena -- 1 The Social Base of Folklore -- 2 Tradition Without End -- 3 The Poetics of Folklore -- 4 Three Aspects of Oral Textuality -- 5 Performance -- 6 Myth-Ritual-Symbol -- 7 Religious Practice -- 8 Work and Professions -- 9 Material Culture -- Part II Location -- Introduction: Location -- 10 Translingual Folklore and Folklorics in China -- 11 Japan -- 12 India -- 13 Oceania -- 14 Folklore and Folklore Studies in Latin America -- 15 Folklore Studies in the United States -- 16 Dancing Around Folklore: Constructing a National Culture in Turkey -- 17 Folklore Studies In Israel -- 18 Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) Literature -- 19 From Volkskunde to the "Field of Many Names": Folklore Studies in German-Speaking Europe Since 1945 -- 20 Finland -- 21 Ireland -- 22 Russia -- Part III Reflection -- Introduction: Reflection -- 23 Folklore and Literature -- 24 Folklore and/in Music -- 25 Folklore and/on Film -- 26 Cultural Heritage -- 27 Cultural Property -- 28 Folklore: Legal and Constitutional Power -- Part IV Practice -- Introduction: Practice -- 29 Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Writing: Approaches and Methods from the Perspective of Ethnological Analysis of the Present -- 30 Imagining Public Folklore -- 31 The Institutionalization of Folklore -- Index.