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To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before. Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United States and Canada. As the first history of folklore studies since the mid-1980s, this book offers a long overdue look into the development of the earliest programs and the novel directions of more recent programs. The volume is encyclopedic in its coverage and is organized chronologically based on the approximate founding date of each program. Drawing extensively on archival sources, oral histories, and personal experience, the contributors explore the key individuals and central events in folklore programs at US and Canadian academic institutions and demonstrate how these programs have been shaped within broader cultural and historical contexts. Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential read for all folklorists and those who are studying to become folklorists.
To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before. Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United States and Canada. As the first history of folklore studies since the mid-1980s, this book offers a long overdue look into the development of the earliest programs and the novel directions of more recent programs. The volume is encyclopedic in its coverage and is organized chronologically based on the approximate founding date of each program. Drawing extensively on archival sources, oral histories, and personal experience, the contributors explore the key individuals and central events in folklore programs at US and Canadian academic institutions and demonstrate how these programs have been shaped within broader cultural and historical contexts. Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential read for all folklorists and those who are studying to become folklorists.
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 Multi-Genealogical 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 the 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. Folklore 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 @ 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 OSU / 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
24. This is the Right Place for It: The Development of the Folklore
Program at Cape Breton University / Jodi McDavid
25. Practical Cultural Work: The MA in Cultural Sustainability at
Goucher College / Amy E. Skillman and Rory Turner
26. The Future out of the Past: The View from the Conference on the
Future of American Folkloristics / Jesse A. Fivecoate, Kristina
Downs, and Meredith A. E. McGriff
Conclusion / Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Patricia Sawin is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Folklore Program in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories. Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt is Vice President Emerita and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Agnes Scott College. She is author of American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent and (with Isaac Jack Lévy) Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits and Healing the Sick.
When the volume's intended readers pick it up, they will be certain
to turn first to the program where they studied and which shaped
them (which this reviewer confesses she did), but they should come
away from the volume with a much better sense of their own academic
legacy and of the astonishing variety of academic folklore
(heritage, popular culture, etc.) programs that exist in North
America today. Each has its own emphasis, theoretical profile,
ethos, and mission, but together they have the power to be greater
thanthe sum of their parts. The volume also reminds readers that,
while folkloristics may no longer be an "emerging" discipline, the
future health of the field will need constant and careful
curation.
*Folklorica*
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