Public folklore / edited by Robert Baron and Nicholas R. Spitzer.

Other author Baron, Robert, 1951-
Other author Spitzer, Nicholas R.
Other author American Folklore Society.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1992.
Descriptionxiv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPublications of the American Folklore Society. New series
Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered) ^A234280
Contents 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 -- 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 -- Journey of David Allen, cane carver : transformations through public folkore / Susan Roach -- Presenting folklore in a Soviet-American cultural exchange : public practice during perestroika / Richard Kurin -- 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 -- Foundations of American public folklore / Roger D. Abrahams -- Feasts of.
Contents (cont) 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.
General noteContains essays from the 1987 American Folklore Society meeting in Albuquerque, N.M.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 91037952
ISBN1560981423 (alk. paper)
ISBN9781560981428 (alk. paper)
ISBN1560981172 (pbk.)
ISBN9781560981176 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks GR105 .P84 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold