Discovering American Folklife: Essays on Folk Culture and the Pennsylvania Dutch

By Don Yoder

Book Overview

Now available for the first time in paperback, this is a classic sampling of Don Yoder's massive body of work in folklife studies. The essays cover folk religion, folk medicine, sectarian costume,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811727432
• ISBN13: 9780811727433
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

It has everything

Professor Don Yoder has produced the consumate authority on all things Pennsylvania German. If you don't know who they are, here you will learn. If you don't know their food, their dress, their customs, their architecture; their folk religion and folk crafts, here you will learn. Everyone with the slightest interest in this culture must have this book. It will never lose its existential importance.