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Western Folklore

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Abstract

Chapter 6 “Western Folklore” was written by Chen Hao and translated by Zhou Jinhua. This chapter first elaborates Western folklore in terms of wedding and funeral customs, food folklore, traditional festivals, beliefs and taboos; then it turns to some details of folklore in specific areas, namely, folk cultures and features of folklore in major European and American countries.

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  1. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

    Guobin Xu, Yanhui Chen & Lianhua Xu

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  1. Guobin Xu

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  1. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

    Guobin Xu

  2. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

    Yanhui Chen

  3. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

    Lianhua Xu

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Xu, G., Chen, Y., Xu, L. (2018). Western Folklore. In: Xu, G., Chen, Y., Xu, L. (eds) Introduction to Western Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8153-8_6

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