Legend and Belief

Legend and Belief
Author: Linda Dégh
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2001-11-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780253339294


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Industrial advancement has not changed the basic fragility of human life, and the commercialization and consumer orientation of the mass media has actually helped legends travel faster and farther. Legends are communicated not only orally, face to face, but also in the press, on radio and television, on countless Web sites, and by e-mail, perpetuating new waves of the "culture of fear.""--BOOK JACKET.


Legend and Belief
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Authors: Linda Dégh
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11-14 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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