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Exploring Local Communities: Conducting Ethnographic Research In Folklore Studies, Lisa Gabbert Jul 2010

Exploring Local Communities: Conducting Ethnographic Research In Folklore Studies, Lisa Gabbert

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Cookie traditions? Family reunions? Snipe hunting? Jell-O recipes in Utah? Undergraduates’ folklore research projects cover an amazing variety of offbeat subjects. These topics may seem superficially unimportant to many scholars in other fields, and they usually are overlooked in the serious halls of academe (although undergraduate research in folklore often finds its way into professional books and publications as scholars use materials deposited in folklore archives, a recent example of which is Elizabeth Tucker’s 2007 book Haunted Halls).

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Review Of ‘Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty’, Christie L. Fox Jan 2010

Review Of ‘Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty’, Christie L. Fox

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Breaking Forms: The Shift To Performance In Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Christie L. Fox Jan 2008

Breaking Forms: The Shift To Performance In Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Christie L. Fox

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Review Of Jack Santino’S Signs Of War And Peace, Jeannie Thomas Jan 2004

Review Of Jack Santino’S Signs Of War And Peace, Jeannie Thomas

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Galway Arts Festival, 2003: Focusing On Home, Still Delighting, Christie L. Fox Jan 2003

Galway Arts Festival, 2003: Focusing On Home, Still Delighting, Christie L. Fox

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For twenty-six years the Galway Arts Festival has “morphed” the city of Galway into its natural logical conclusion: the city already boasts a young, artistic community, but for two weeks each summer, the festival brings the spotlight and the crowds to Galway for a celebration of the arts. Of late, however, the festival has suffered from decreased government expenditures on the arts—as have all the arts in Ireland. Recent festivals have been far more subdued than the extravagant Millennial Festival in 1999, during which the city teemed with outdoor events and more than one hundred thousand people gathered to watch …

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Creating Community: Macnas’S Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000, Christie L. Fox Jan 2003

Creating Community: Macnas’S Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000, Christie L. Fox

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Review Of Susan Stern’S Film, Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, Jeannie Thomas Jan 2001

Review Of Susan Stern’S Film, Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, Jeannie Thomas

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The Self In ‘Fieldwork’: A Methodological Concern, Christie L. Fox, Beverly Stoeltje, Stephen Olbrys Jan 1999

The Self In ‘Fieldwork’: A Methodological Concern, Christie L. Fox, Beverly Stoeltje, Stephen Olbrys

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As concepts of reflexivity and postcolonial perspectives have advanced our understandings of the way we represent those we study, they have also introduced a consciousness of the role of the self in research. This article reviews the history of the field of folklore with regard to the method of obtaining data or texts and demonstrates that collecting material contrasts with the practice of conducting research in the field. Pointing to a moment of transition, it shows that theories of folklore had to undergo significant change before methods of research would acknowledge the identity of the fieldworker and its significance.

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