Richard Dorson – Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia

Richard Mercer Dorson (ur. 1916, zm. 1981) – amerykański folklorysta i pisarz. Wykładał na uniwersytetach w Indiana i Michigan. Bywa określany mianem "ojca amerykańskiej folklorystyki".

• 1939: Davy Crocket, American Comic Legend
• 1946: Jonathan Draws the Long Bow
• 1950: America Begins
• 1952: Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers
• 1953: American Rebels: Personal narratives of the American Revolution
• 1956: Negro Folktales in Michigan
• 1958: Negro Folktales from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Calvin, Michigan
• 1959: American Folklore
• 1961: American Folklore and the Historian
• 1961: Folk Legends of Japan
• 1961: Folklore Research Around the World: A North American Point of View
• 1964: Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States
• 1967: American Negro Folktales
• 1968: Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists
• 1969: British Folklorists: A History
• 1971: American Folklore and the Historian
• 1972: African Folklore
• 1972: Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction
• 1973: America in Legend
• 1973: Folklore and Traditional History
• 1974: Folklore in the Modern World
• 1976: Folklore and Fakelore: Essays toward a Discipline of Folk Studies
• 1981: Land of the Millrats
• 1983: Handbook of American Folklore