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.
Edited by:
Ray Cashman,
Tom Mould,
Pravina Shukla
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780253223739
ISBN 10: 0253223733
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 21 September 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"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-Björklöf 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 Başgöz 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 Jevremović 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 is Associate Professor of English and Folklore Studies at Ohio State University and author of Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border (IUP, 2008). 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, 2007).
Reviews for The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives
This book is strongly recommended to anyone interested in vernacular traditions and their re-creation in the individual imagination -Journal of Folklore Research [This] volume is a significant contribution to the field as well as a useful tool for teaching and research. -Journal of American Folklore
