The Individual and Tradition
Folkloristic Perspectives
Published on 21. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-0-253-22373-9 (ISBN)
Description
Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage with, carry on, revive, and create tradition. Leading scholars in folklore studies consider how the field has addressed the connections between performer and tradition and examine theoretical issues involved in fieldwork and the analysis and dissemination of scholarship in the context of relationships with the performers. Honoring Henry Glassie and his remarkable contributions to the field of folklore, these vivid case studies exemplify the best of performer-centered ethnography.
Reviews / Votes
"[This] volume is a significant contribution to the field as well as a useful tool for teaching and research."-Journal of American Folklore"This book is strongly recommended to anyone interested in vernacular traditions and their re-creation in the individual imagination"-Journal of Folklore Research
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
50 b&w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
801 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-22373-9 (9780253223739)
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Persons
Ray Cashman is Associate Professor of English and Folklore Studies at Ohio State University and author of Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border (IUP). Tom Mould is Associate Professor of Anthropology and director of PERCS, the Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies, at Elon University. He is author of Choctaw Prophecy: A Legacy of the Future and Choctaw Tales. Pravina Shukla is Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington and author of The Grace of Four Moons (IUP).
Content
Introduction: The Individual and Tradition
Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla
Entering Tradition: Kim Ellington, Catawba Valley Potter
Charles G. Zug
Delight in Skill: The Stone Carvers' Art
Marjorie Hunt
The "Talking Machine Story Teller": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of Storytelling
Richard Bauman
Chief Ovia Idah: Bricoleur of Benin City and a Star for All Times
Philip M. Peek
Place Matters: A Wooden Boat Builder in the Twenty-First Century
Maggie Holtzberg
A Backdoor into Performance
Tom Mould
The Maintenance of Heritage: Kersti Jobs-Bjoerkloef and Swedish Folk Costume
Pravina Shukla
The World of Ogre-Tile Makers: The Onihyaku Line in Hekinan, Japan
Takashi Takahara
Bringing Them Back: Wanda Aragon and the Revival of Historic Pottery Designs at Acoma
Karen M. Duffy
Artistic Courage in Small Groups: Identity, Intermediality, and Indian Country
Michael Robert Evans
Navigating the Legends of Treasure Island: Narrative, Maps, and the Material
Greg Kelley
Fluid Identities: Madame d'Aulnoy, Mother Bunch, and Fairy-Tale History
Jennifer Schacker
Counting the Stars: The Study of Creativity on a Human Scale, or How a Bunch of Cajun and German Farmers and Fabricators in Louisiana Invented a Traditional Amphibious Boat
John Laudun
On Middle-Range Structures in Heroic Epic
William Hansen
The Role of Tradition in the Individual: At Work in Donegal with Packy Jim McGrath
Ray Cashman
Customizing Myth: The Personal in the Public
John Holmes McDowell
David Drake: Potter, Poet, Rebel
John Michael Vlach
The Mother's Voice: An Analysis of the Content of Turkish Lullabies
Ilhan Basgoez
Contested Performance and Joke Aesthetics
Elliott Oring
Vernacular Interpretation in a Public Folklore Event: Listening to the Call of Florida Fiddlers, Three
Gregory Hansen
Georgia Decoy Maker Ernie Mills: A Folk Artist Defines His Work
John A. Burrison
Rapid Transportation
Lee Haring
Working Through Tradition: Rug Farming In Anatolia
George Jevremovic
A Few of My Favorite Things about North Carolina Pottery
Mark Hewitt
That's Where I Came In: Henry and His Teachers
Robert Cochran
At the Black Pig's Dyke and Other Writing: Crossing Borders of Art and Tradition
Vincent Woods
A Folklorist's Work: Henry Glassie's Life in the Field
Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla
Acknowledgments
Tabula Gratulatoria
Contributors
Index
Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla
Entering Tradition: Kim Ellington, Catawba Valley Potter
Charles G. Zug
Delight in Skill: The Stone Carvers' Art
Marjorie Hunt
The "Talking Machine Story Teller": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of Storytelling
Richard Bauman
Chief Ovia Idah: Bricoleur of Benin City and a Star for All Times
Philip M. Peek
Place Matters: A Wooden Boat Builder in the Twenty-First Century
Maggie Holtzberg
A Backdoor into Performance
Tom Mould
The Maintenance of Heritage: Kersti Jobs-Bjoerkloef and Swedish Folk Costume
Pravina Shukla
The World of Ogre-Tile Makers: The Onihyaku Line in Hekinan, Japan
Takashi Takahara
Bringing Them Back: Wanda Aragon and the Revival of Historic Pottery Designs at Acoma
Karen M. Duffy
Artistic Courage in Small Groups: Identity, Intermediality, and Indian Country
Michael Robert Evans
Navigating the Legends of Treasure Island: Narrative, Maps, and the Material
Greg Kelley
Fluid Identities: Madame d'Aulnoy, Mother Bunch, and Fairy-Tale History
Jennifer Schacker
Counting the Stars: The Study of Creativity on a Human Scale, or How a Bunch of Cajun and German Farmers and Fabricators in Louisiana Invented a Traditional Amphibious Boat
John Laudun
On Middle-Range Structures in Heroic Epic
William Hansen
The Role of Tradition in the Individual: At Work in Donegal with Packy Jim McGrath
Ray Cashman
Customizing Myth: The Personal in the Public
John Holmes McDowell
David Drake: Potter, Poet, Rebel
John Michael Vlach
The Mother's Voice: An Analysis of the Content of Turkish Lullabies
Ilhan Basgoez
Contested Performance and Joke Aesthetics
Elliott Oring
Vernacular Interpretation in a Public Folklore Event: Listening to the Call of Florida Fiddlers, Three
Gregory Hansen
Georgia Decoy Maker Ernie Mills: A Folk Artist Defines His Work
John A. Burrison
Rapid Transportation
Lee Haring
Working Through Tradition: Rug Farming In Anatolia
George Jevremovic
A Few of My Favorite Things about North Carolina Pottery
Mark Hewitt
That's Where I Came In: Henry and His Teachers
Robert Cochran
At the Black Pig's Dyke and Other Writing: Crossing Borders of Art and Tradition
Vincent Woods
A Folklorist's Work: Henry Glassie's Life in the Field
Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla
Acknowledgments
Tabula Gratulatoria
Contributors
Index