University of Wisconsin professors Thomas DuBois and James P. Leary currently edit the major American journal on this subject.
University of Wisconsin professors Thomas DuBois and James P. Leary currently edit the major American journal on this subject. George Lyman Kittredge and his mentor Francis James Child were teachers of this subject in the US. A classic 1965 book on the study of this subject was written by Berkeley professor Alan Dundes. Kaarle Krohn invented the "Finnish" method approach to studying this subject; then, his students Stith Thompson and Antti Arne developed a namesake index to categorize it. A list of 31 "narratemes" is presented in a book titled for the morphology of this field, written by Vladimir Propp. The earliest definitive work in this discipline, usually abbreviated KHM, was intended as a sequel to a collection by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim titled The Boy's Magic Horn, based on stories told by German peasants. For 10 points, name this discipline which studies namesake tales of a people. 
University of Wisconsin professors Thomas DuBois and James P. Leary currently edit the major American journal on this subject.
folklore [or folk tales; or specific types of folklore such as American  folklore; prompt on cultural anthropology]