Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents -- Preface -- Section One: Folklore Theory And Method -- 1. The American Concept Of Folklore -- 2. The Devolutionary Premise In Folklore Theory -- 3. The Study Of Folklore In Literature And Culture: Identification And Interpretation -- 4. Proverbs And The Ethnography Of Speaking Folklore -- 5. Metafolklore And Oral Literary Criticism -- Section Two: Structural Analysis Of Folklore -- 6. From Etic To Emic Units In The Structural Study Of Folktales -- 7. Structural Typology In North American Indian Folktales -- 8. On Game Morphology: A Study Of The Structure Of Non-Verbal Folklore -- 9. The Structure Of Superstition -- 10. Toward A Structural Definition Of The Riddle -- 11. On The Structure Of The Proverb -- Section Three: The Psychoanalytic Approach -- 12. On The Psychology Of Collecting Folklore -- 13. Earth-Diver: Creation Of The Mythopoeic Male -- 14. Summoning Deity Through Ritual Fasting -- 15. The Father, The Son, And The Holy Grail -- 16. On The Psychology Of Legend -- Section Four: The Analysis Of American Folklore -- 17. Here I Sit - A Study Of American Latrinalia -- 18. On Elephantasy And Elephanticide -- 19. The Number Three In American Culture -- 20. Thinking Ahead: A Folkloristic Reflection Of The Future Orientation In American Worldview -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter