Download or read book The Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol. 31 written by Franz Boas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol. 31: January-March, 1918 To a few Specialists, however, such an assumption is preposterous. It seems, that the instinct of preservation and conservatism, far from having been. Lost altogether, is still deep-rooted, and that a large mass of popular or oral tradition is being handed down from the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.