Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments "The Psychoanalytic Study of Folklore" appeared in Annals of Scholarship 3, no. 3 (1985): 1-42, and is reprinted by permission of the editor of that journal. An earlier version of this paper was originally presented at a special meeting of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Society on 24 September 1983, honoring Dr. Samuel Eisenstein. "Heads or Tails: A Psychoanalytic Study of Potlatch" first appeared in the Journal of Psychological Anthropology 2 (1979): 395-424, and is reprinted with the permission of the Association for Psychohistory, Inc. "The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes" first appeared in the Journal ofAmerican Folklore 83 (1970): 325-349, and is reprinted by permission of the American Folklore Society. "The Piropo and the Dual Image of Women in the SpanishSpeaking World" originally appeared in the Journal of Latin American Lore, 10:1 (1984), 111-133, and is reprinted with the permission of The Regents of the University of California for the Latin American Center, University of California, Los Angeles. "Couvade in Genesis" first appeared in Issachar Ben-Ami and Joseph Dan, eds., Studies in Aggadah and Jewish Folklore, Folklore Research Center Studies (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1983), pp. 35-53 and is reprinted by permission of the Folklore Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "The Symbolic Equivalence of Allomotifs in the Rabbit-Herd xv xvi Acknowledgments (AT 570)," appeared originally in Arv: Scandinavian Yearbook of Folklore, vol. 36 (1980)[1982], 91-98, and is reprinted by permission of the editor of Arv. "The American Game of 'Smear the Queer' and the Homosexual Component of Male Competitive Sport and Warfare," appeared first in the Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology 8 (1985): 115-129. I wish to thank the above-mentioned publishers and societies for their kindness in allowing me to reprint the essays in this volume. Parsing through Customs ...