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Legend-making Processes

Legend-Making Processes is a theoretical construct that systematically identifies and analyzes the socio-cultural, historical, and narrative mechanisms through which legendary figures and events are synthesized, transmitted, and reinterpreted within collective memory and folklore traditions.

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75

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12

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2017–2026

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Publications

59

The Razor Blade in the Apple: The Social Construction of Urban Legends

Joel Best, Gerald T. Horiuchi · Social Problems · 1985 · 112 citations

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Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends.

Sabina Magliocco, Gary Alan Fine · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1993 · 108 citations

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Legend and belief: dialectics of a folklore genre

Choice Reviews Online · 2002 · 96 citations

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"It Happened Not Too Far from Here...": A Survey of Legend Theory and Characterization

Timothy R. Tangherlini · Western Folklore · 1990 · 95 citations

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Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder

Bill Ellis · Western Folklore · 1989 · 89 citations

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Authors

75

  1. BE
    Bill Ellis

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    5 publications · 272 citations

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  2. TR
    Timothy R. Tangherlini

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    5 publications · 229 citations

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  3. GT
    Gerald T. Horiuchi

    California State University, Fresno, United States

    2 publications · 139 citations

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  4. EO
    E. O. James

    1 publications · 39 citations

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  5. JB
    Joel Best

    University of Delaware, United States

    1 publications · 27 citations

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Institutions

12

  1. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    42 citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  3. Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

    Indianapolis, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  4. California State University, Fresno

    Fresno, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    224 citations

  5. Stockbridge Library Association

    Stockbridge, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    83 citations

  6. Flemish Community

    Brussels, Belgium

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    43 citations

  7. University of Calgary

    Calgary, Canada

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    26 citations

  8. Jawaharlal Nehru University

    New Delhi, India

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

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Venues

  1. Western Folklore

    8 publications · 449 citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 6 publications · 272 citations

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  3. Journal of American Folklore

    JAF · 4 publications · 97 citations

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  4. Folklore

    4 publications · 61 citations

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  5. Journal of American History

    3 publications · 43 citations

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