Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Preface: Theorizing Grand Theory in Folkloristics; The Provocation; 1 Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century ; Responses ; 2 America's Antitheoretical Folkloristics ; 3 The Sweep of Knowledge: The Politics of Grand and Local Theory in Folkloristics ; 4 What('s) Theory? ; 5 The Philology of the Vernacular ; 6 Humble Theory
7 Grand Theory, Nationalism, and American Folklore 8 There Is No Grand Theory in Germany, and for Good Reason ; Comments ; 9 What Theory Is ; 10 Weak Theory in an Unfinished World ; 11 "Or in Other Words": Recasting Grand Theory ; 12 Disciplining Folkloristics ; Afterwords ; 13 Reflections on Grand Theory, Graduate School, and Intellectual Ballast; 14 Ten Years After; Index
