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Group Works To Raise Historic Indian's Head Rock From River, Steven Shaffer
Group Works To Raise Historic Indian's Head Rock From River, Steven Shaffer
Indian Head Rock Project
Article published in the Huntington Herald-Dispatch on the removal of Indian Head Rock from October 2, 2007.
Removal Of Indian Head Rock, Unknown.
Removal Of Indian Head Rock, Unknown.
Indian Head Rock Project
Removal of Indian Head Rock on September 9, 2007.
Removal Of Indian Head Rock, Unknown.
Removal Of Indian Head Rock, Unknown.
Indian Head Rock Project
Removal of Indian Head Rock on September 9, 2007.
Historic River Rock Rescued, Frank Lewis
Historic River Rock Rescued, Frank Lewis
Indian Head Rock Project
Article published in the Portsmouth Daily Times on the extraction of the Indian Head Rock on September 9, 2007.
Removal Of Indian Head Rock, Unknown.
Removal Of Indian Head Rock, Unknown.
Indian Head Rock Project
Removal of Indian Head Rock on September 9, 2007.
Photograph Of The Extraction Crew, Steve Shaffer
Photograph Of The Extraction Crew, Steve Shaffer
Indian Head Rock Project
Photograph of the Indian Head Rock extraction crew on the day of the Rock's removal.
Haunting Experiences: Ghosts In Contemporary Folklore, Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, Jeannie B. Thomas
Haunting Experiences: Ghosts In Contemporary Folklore, Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, Jeannie B. Thomas
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Ghosts and the supernatural appear throughout modern culture, in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts. Popular media's commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from what people believe about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Belief and tradition and the popular or commercial nevertheless continually feed off each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from multiple angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously. They …
Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film As Vernacular Culture, Sharon R. Sherman, Mikel J. Koven
Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film As Vernacular Culture, Sharon R. Sherman, Mikel J. Koven
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Interest in the conjunctions of film and folklore is stronger and more diverse than ever. Documentaries on folk life and expression remain a vital genre, but scholars such as Sharon Sherman and Mikel Koven also are exploring how folklore elements appear in, and merge with, popular cinema. They look at how movies, a popular culture medium, can as well be both a medium and type of folklore, playing cultural roles and conveying meanings customarily found in other folkloric forms. They thus use the methodology of folklore studies to analyze films made for commercial distribution. The contributors to this book look …
The Meaning Of Folklore, Simon J. Bronner
The Meaning Of Folklore, Simon J. Bronner
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The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung journals. Brought together for the first time in this volume compiled and edited by Simon Bronner, the selection surveys Dundes's major ideas and emphases, and is introduced by Bronner with a thorough analysis of Dundes's long career, his interpretations, and his inestimable contribution to folklore studies.