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Dundes, Alan Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore
New York Columbia University Press 1984 0-231-05494-7 / 9780231054942 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dj Illustrated by (dj design) Laiying Chong
[minor wear to book extremities, previous owner's signature and slight remnant of removed label on ffep; jacket a little dog-eared along the top and bottom edges of the front panel, a few small closed tears, considerable soiling to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A controversial, one might even say notorious, work of folkloric scholarship, in which the author examines Germans' obsession with shit, and posits this as a key to the German national character. I'm neither an anthropologist nor a folklorist, but I gotta say: he makes a pretty convincing case, citing a truly extraordinary number and variety of references to excremental matters in German folklore over the course of many centuries. Much of this takes the form of jokes -- toilet humor, quite literally -- but eventually he works his way around to talking about Auschwitz, by which point the chuckles have kind of faded away. A remarkable book, and quite scarce; recently cited in a New Yorker article in reference to the role of German banks in the global economic mess. In his Preface, the author relates the initial response to his presentation of these ideas, at an annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in 1980, especially from a contingent of German-born members -- who "laugh[ed] loudly and often at the various examples of folklore presented," but by the end of the presentation "were so violently angry they were unable to speak."
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