Folklore on Two Continents: Essays in Honor of Linda Dégh

Literature & Fiction

Burlakoff, Nikolai

Essays & Correspondence

Trickster Press

This book looks at folklore and its emergence in the social lives of human beings. It will be an indispensable tool for beginning students of folklore. The contributors review the scope of their topics and suggest different possibilities for projects. Other features of this book include: definitions of key terms and concepts, explanations of collecting techniques, technological considerations, theoretical frameworks for interpreting data, and examples of fieldwork from the contributors to help students envision their own finished product. A selected annotated bibliography and several photographs are also included.

The Emergence Of Folklore In Everyday Life: A Fieldguide And Sourcebook

Politics & Social Sciences

Schoemaker, George H.

Social Sciences

This wide-ranging collection includes articles by twenty of the world's most eminent folklorists who have come together to honor their colleague Kenneth S. Goldstein, professor, scholar, book publisher, record producer, collector, chairman of the Department of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania, editor of the Journal of American Folklore, past-president of the American Folklore Society, and author of the landmark book A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore, which remains, more than thirty years after its first publication, the standard text on its subject. Drawing inspiration from Goldstein's example as a researcher and scholar, the contributors examine topics ranging from Goldstein's own theoretical positions and the process of fieldwork to discussions of folk belief, ethnic diversity, children's folklore, Native American texts, early American rituals and folklore, women's folklore, and obscenity. This volume represents the cutting edge of current methods in folklore studies while celebrating the intellectual traditions that have defined the field in the latter half of the century. The contributors are: Roger D. Abrahams, Dan Ben-Amos,Tristram Potter Coffin, Henry Glassie, Herbert Halpert, David J. Hufford, Dell Hymes, Virginia Hymes, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Margaret Mills, Peter Narváez, John W. Roberts, Dan Rose, Neil V. Rosenberg, Robert Blair St. George, Brian Sutton-Smith, John F. Szwed, Janet Theophano, Gerald Thomas, and J. D. A. Widdowson.

Fields of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Goldstein

Abrahams, Roger D.

When a person set out to build his house in southern Indiana a century ago, a series of complex decisions had to be made: Shaped log or hewn-and-chinked? Dog-trot or I-house? Which neighbors can help? How many of the seventy-five necessary tools must be bought or made? How much time is available? How these decisions were made and how these structures were built can be found in Log Buildings of Southern Indiana, an invaluable book for anyone interested in the history, construction, and preservation of log buildings and the architecture of the American Midwest. Houses, barns, or outbuildings constructed of logs have always aroused interest, wonder, and curiosity in Indiana. To many people they represent a very tangible link with the past, a way of gaining insight into the everyday life of the pre-industrial era. Despite such interest, there have been few detailed studies of the log buildings of southern Indiana. Based on a close study of more than 400 log buildings carried out over a period of many years, Warren Roberts attempts to fill that lack. Employing more than 50 photographs and 45 drawings, Roberts describes the extant log buildings of southern Indiana, categorizes them, and tells how they were built. He also presents the background and history of log constructing in western Europe and the United States, and he discusses various theories concerning the origins of log construction in America.

Log Buildings of Southern Indiana

Arts & Photography

Roberts, Warren E.

Architecture

Reading Takelma texts

Hymes, Dell H.

Reference

From the advance praise for Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative: "In less than twenty years after its publication Sandra Dolby's seminal work on Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative has become a classic in folklore and narrative studies. In fact, no scholar or student can be engaged in the study of personal narratives without this ground-breaking work. Dolby's pioneering work has won international acclaim with its theoretical discussion of literary folkloristics, its detailed definition and analysis of the personal narrative as an oral literary genre, its methodology of interpreting personal narrative texts, and its analysis of actual texts. As such, this book has guided the advancement in personal narrative studies over the past two decades in scholarship worldwide..." --Wolfgang Mieder, Professor of German and Folklore, University of Vermont

Literary Folkloristics And The Personal Narrative

Dolby, Sandra K.

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