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Full-Text Articles in Folklore
"Queens Of Ghost-Land" 134 Years Later: Un-Masking An Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser, Aíne Norris
"Queens Of Ghost-Land" 134 Years Later: Un-Masking An Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser, Aíne Norris
English Faculty Publications
In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender, and societal status. Despite an implied familiarity with the region, the article was published with initials for its byline, an act that simultaneously identified the author to locals as historian Eva Grant while offering her anonymized national protection as a subject expert. For over five years the accusations were re-printed in …
Exploring Local Communities: Conducting Ethnographic Research In Folklore Studies, Lisa Gabbert
Exploring Local Communities: Conducting Ethnographic Research In Folklore Studies, Lisa Gabbert
English Faculty Publications
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).
Review Of ‘Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty’, Christie L. Fox
Review Of ‘Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty’, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Breaking Forms: The Shift To Performance In Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Christie L. Fox
Breaking Forms: The Shift To Performance In Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Jack Santino’S Signs Of War And Peace, Jeannie Thomas
Review Of Jack Santino’S Signs Of War And Peace, Jeannie Thomas
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Creating Community: Macnas’S Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000, Christie L. Fox
Creating Community: Macnas’S Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Galway Arts Festival, 2003: Focusing On Home, Still Delighting, Christie L. Fox
Galway Arts Festival, 2003: Focusing On Home, Still Delighting, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
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 …
Review Of Susan Stern’S Film, Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, Jeannie Thomas
Review Of Susan Stern’S Film, Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, Jeannie Thomas
English Faculty Publications
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The Self In ‘Fieldwork’: A Methodological Concern, Christie L. Fox, Beverly Stoeltje, Stephen Olbrys
The Self In ‘Fieldwork’: A Methodological Concern, Christie L. Fox, Beverly Stoeltje, Stephen Olbrys
English Faculty Publications
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.