Folklore in the United States and Canada : an institutional history / edited by Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sawin, Patricia, editor.

Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy, 1944- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Study and teaching--United States--History.

Folklore.

Folklore--Study and teaching--Canada--History.

Folklore--Study and teaching.

History.

Canada.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 312 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction / Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Part I: Early Programs

1. The Quintessence of the Humanities: Folklore and Mythology at Harvard / Rachel C. Kirby and Anthony Bak Buccitelli

2. Bringing Ethnographic Research to the Public Conversation: Folklore at the University of North Carolina / Patricia Sawin

3. Teaching and Research at Laval University (Québec, Canada): From Folklore to Ethnology / Laurier Turgeon

4. The Folklife Connection: Ethnological Organization at Franklin and Marshall, Cooperstown, and Penn State Harrisburg /Simon J. Bronner

Part II: 1960s-70s Efflorescence

5. "The Great Team" of American Folklorists: Characters Large in Life and Grand in Plans / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

6. The Jewel in the Crown: Hallmarks of Success in Indiana University's Folklore Program / Jeanne Harrah-Johnson

7. Folklore and Mythology Studies at UCLA / Michael Owen Jones

8. Of Politics, Disciplines, and Scholars: MacEdward Leach and the Founding of the Folklore Program at the University of Pennsylvania / Rosina S. Miller

9. Groundtruthing the Humanities: Penn Folklore and Folklife, 1973-2013 / Mary Hufford

10. Toward a Multigenealogical Folkloristics: The Berkeley Experiment / Charles L. Briggs

11. The Texas School / Richard Bauman

12. Memorial University's Folklore Program: Outsiders and Insiders / Lynne S. McNeill

13. A Century of Folklore Research and Teaching at Western Kentucky / Michael Ann Williams

14. Folklore at the University of Oregon: A History of Tradition, Innovation, and Pushing the Rock up the Hill / Sharon R. Sherman

15. From Ukrainian Studies to Folklore of the Prairies: The Kule Center for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore, University of Alberta / Natalie Kononenko

16. Engagement with Community in Distinctive Folklore Concentrations: University of Louisiana at Lafayette / Marcia Gaudet and Barry Jean Ancelet

17. The Fife Legacy: Fifty Years of Folklore at Utah State University / Randy Williams

Part III: Newer Programs and Innovations

18. Folklife in the Nation's Capital: The George Washington University Experience / James I. Deutsch

19. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Folklore Program and the Wisconsin Idea / Christine J. Widmayer and B. Marcus Cederström

20. Folklore at Brigham Young's Universities: Four Generations of Inter(con)textual Studies of Region, Religion, and Beyond /Jill Terry Rudy

21. The Mason Idea / Debra Lattanzi Shutika

22. Folklore and Interdisciplinarity at the Ohio State University / Patrick B. Mullen and Amy Shuman

23. Show Me Folklore: The Folklore, Oral Tradition, and Culture Studies Program at the University of Missouri / Claire Schmidt

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 24, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Sawin, Patricia Folklore in the United States and Canada : An Institutional History

ISBN:

9780253052889

0253052882

Publisher Number:

40030134378

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Restricted for use by site license.