Del Giudice, Luisa, editorPorter Gerald, editorUtah State University Press, publisher2007-01-032007-01-032001http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87823An international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence--some idealizations, some demonizations--in the construction of identities for themselves and for others.Mountains of cheese and rivers of wine: Paesi di Cuccagna and other gastronomic utopias / Luisa Del Giudice -- Prefaced space: tales of the colonial British collectors of Indian folklore / Sadhana Naithani -- Working the railways, constructing Navvy identity / Reimund Kvideland and Gerald Porter -- "Who talks of my nation?" the role of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in constructing "Englishness" / Gerald Porter -- The Turkish German self: displacing German-German conflict in oriental street ballads / Tom Cheesman -- Bovine bodies and the domestication of the human mind / Cozette Griffin-Kremer -- "The poppy blossom from my native land": the married woman as exile in Latvian folk poetry / Vaira Vike-Freiberga.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Oral traditionUtopiasImaginary placesEthnicityNationalismNostalgiaTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University members only.