Discovering American Folklife: Essays On Folk Culture & The Pennsylvania Dutch

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This third and expanded 25th Anniversary Edition is a classic sampling of Don Yoder’s massive body of work in folklife studies. The essays cover folk religion, folk medicine, sectarian costume, traditional cookery, and the folklife of the Pennsylvania Dutch, specifically Harvest Home, witch tales, Fraktur, and sauerkraut for New Year’s.

Author: Don Yoder
Softcover
Publisher: Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, 2015
359 pages
Color photos throughout
ISBN: 9781601264565

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