| Description |
xiv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series |
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Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
Introduction / Robert Baron and Nicholas R. Spitzer -- Pt. 1. Reflections and Directions. The Public, the Folklorist, and the Public Folklorist / Roger D. Abrahams. Mistaken Dichotomies / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Public Folklore's Name: A Partisan's Notes / Archie Green. Happy Birthday, Dear American Folklore Society: Reflections on the Work and Mission of Folklorists / Bess Lomax Hawes -- Pt. 2. Metaphors and Methods of Practice. Cultural Conversation: Metaphors and Methods in Public Folklore / Nicholas R. Spitzer. "So Correct for the Photograph": "Fixing" the Ineffable, Ineluctable African American / Gerald L. Davis. Public Folklore: A Glimpse of the Pattern That Connects / Robert S. McCarl. Field Work and Social Work: Folklore as Helping Profession / Frank Proschan. The Journey of David Allen, Cane Carver: Transformations through Public Folklore / Susan Roach. Presenting Folklife in a Soviet-American Cultural Exchange: Public Practice during Perestroika / Richard Kurin |
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Crossover Dreams: The Folklorist and the Folk Arrival / Daniel Sheehy. Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds: Some Thoughts on the Training of Public Folklorists / Jim Griffith -- Pt. 3. Recovering a History of Public Folklore. The Foundations of American Public Folklore / Roger D. Abrahams. Feasts of Unnaming: Folk Festivals and the Representation of Folklife / Robert Cantwell. Postwar Public Folklore and the Professionalization of Folklore Studies / Robert Baron -- Public Folklore: A Bibliographic Introduction / Steve Siporin |
| Notes |
Contains essays from the 1987 American Folklore Society meeting in Albuquerque, N.M |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Public folklore -- United States -- Bibliography.
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Public folklore -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Bibliographies.
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| Author |
Baron, Robert, 1951-
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Spitzer, Nicholas R.
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American Folklore Society.
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| LC no. |
91037952 |
| ISBN |
1560981172 (paperback) |
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1560981423 (alk. paper) |
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