Ball, Donald B. (Fa 571), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Ball, Donald B. (Fa 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 571. Symposium paper (1) and articles (9) published in "Ohio Valley Historical Archaeology," written or co-written by Donald B. Ball, concerning grave houses, vernacular architecture and stone construction.
The Seven Spices: Pumpkins, Puritans, And Pathogens In Colonial New England, 2011 Georgia State University
The Seven Spices: Pumpkins, Puritans, And Pathogens In Colonial New England, Michael Sharbaugh
Michael D Sharbaugh
Water sources in the United States' New England region are laden with arsenic. Particularly during North America's colonial period--prior to modern filtration processes--arsenic would make it into the colonists' drinking water. In this article, which evokes the biocultural evolution paradigm, it is argued that colonists offset health risks from the contaminant (arsenic poisoning) by ingesting copious amounts of seven spices--cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, allspice, vanilla, and ginger. The inclusion of these spices in fall and winter recipes that hail from New England would therefore explain why many Americans associate them not only with the region, but with Thanksgiving and Christmas, …
Las Montañas Respiran: La Cosmovisión De La Comunidad De Rayampata Representada A Través Del Mito Pitusiray-Sawasiray, 2011 SIT Study Abroad
Las Montañas Respiran: La Cosmovisión De La Comunidad De Rayampata Representada A Través Del Mito Pitusiray-Sawasiray, Gillian Thornton
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
En las altas montañas de los Andes, donde los árboles crecen lentamente y los vientos están constantemente pulsando a través de la hierba desaliñada, se dice que la tierra respira. Allá, aun los animalitos más pequeños tienen una gran fuerza en el ciclo de vida, y cada uno de los seres vivos, de las plantas, y de las piedras tiene vida. Se dice allá que aun las montañas pueden hablar. En la comunidad alta de Rayampata, la gente se comunica con la tierra para sobrevivir; escucha a los murmullos del río para saber cuando es tiempo a cosechar, lee las …
Man Made Lake, 2011 The University of Maine
Man Made Lake, Gaylon "Jeep" Wilcox
Maine Song and Story Sampler
“Man Made lake” is a commentary on the flooding of a twenty-five mile stretch of the Dead River in Western Maine, which submerged Flagstaff Plantation, Dead River Plantation, and Bigelow Township
The Mad Whittler, 2011 The University of Maine
The Mad Whittler, Gaylon Jeep Wilcox
Maine Song and Story Sampler
“The Mad Whittler” is about Rangeley’s former dump, which may not sound like a traditional subject for poetry. The dump was, before being closed, a major attraction where people from all over gathered to watch bears forage.
Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 569), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 569. Paper: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Study of a Funeral Ribbon Quilt" written by Lynne Marrs (Hammer) Ferguson for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 570), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Ferguson, Lynne Marrs (Hammer), B. 1956 (Fa 570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 570. Paper: [Examination of a Speech Titled "Shake Rag Revisited"] written by Lynne Marrs Hammer Ferguson for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. The speech was delivered on 21 October 2004 by Herbert Oldham at the dedication of a historical marker in the neighborhood.
Maine Folklife, Vol. 17, Iss. 2, 2011 The University of Maine
Maine Folklife, Vol. 17, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
A new collaboration between the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center and the University of Maine will preserve a unique archival collection that documents the history and traditions of Maine, other New England states the Canada's Maritime Provinces. That collection, the entire holdings of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and History, is part of UMaine's Folklife Center.
The library will acquire the entire collection, preserve it at its state-of-the art facilities and serve it online and in person to researchers from around the world. Digital copies will remain accessible at UMaine's Maine Folklife Center.
The folklife center will contract with …
Life On The Farm In The Old Days, 2011 The University of Maine
Life On The Farm In The Old Days, Sunny Stutzman
Maine Song and Story Sampler
Sunny Stutzman's story relates some basic differences between life on the farm in the old days and now, but also generally differences between life on the farm and anywhere else in society.
Staynings, Laura Jo (Burnett), B. 1976 (Fa 562), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Staynings, Laura Jo (Burnett), B. 1976 (Fa 562), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 562. Paper: "Bybee Pottery: A Family's Presentation of History and Tradition" written by Laura Staynings for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Hopkin, Rachel Claire (Fa 563), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Hopkin, Rachel Claire (Fa 563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 563. National Register of Historic Places nomination form for the Hardcastle Store on Highway 234 in Warren County, Kentucky.
Jameson, Jennifer Michelle, B. 1987 (Fa 561), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Jameson, Jennifer Michelle, B. 1987 (Fa 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 561. An annotated collection of playlists for the Freeman Kitchens collection of audio recordings (chiefly reel-to-reel tapes) held by the Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University. A second listing includes "notable items" within the collecction as identified by the compiler.
Classifications In Their Social Context / Book Review, 2011 Rhode Island College
Classifications In Their Social Context / Book Review, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Since Durkheim and Mauss, the study of folk classification has developed along two main lines: the predominantly British and French "soocial constructionist" tradition, and the largely American "ethnoscience" approach, to use Roy Ellen's designations (p. 4). Ellen is referring to the continuing contrast in the anthropological literature between analyses of folk classification systems which view them as primarily reflecting structural, sociological, cosmological, or symbolic concerns, and those which concentrate on the more mundane orderings of nature which employ perceptual (usually morphological) criteria.
Maine Folklife, Vol. 16, Iss. 1, 2011 The University of Maine
Maine Folklife, Vol. 16, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
British Ballads from Maine, edited by Phillips Barry, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Mary Winslow Smyth was published by Yale University Press in 1929. It is an academic collection of Child ballads that the authors collected from singers in Maine. Each ballad is listed with Child numbers with variants used to illustrate the sources and dates of the collection. The authors hoped to demonstrate the richness of New England as a ballad area, to prove that many American ballad texts are old compared with those printed in the Child collection, and to provide a handbook for fieldworkers who might wish to …
Ragland, Mark S. (Fa 559), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Ragland, Mark S. (Fa 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 559. Paper: "Influence of Popular Culture on the Subject of Art," done by Mark S. Ragland as part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes an interview done by Ragland with artist and art educator Michael Taylor about the influence of popular culture on art, with particular emphasis on the pop art genre.
Post-Conflict Cultural Revival And Social Restructuring In Northern Uganda, 2011 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Post-Conflict Cultural Revival And Social Restructuring In Northern Uganda, Erin Michelle Cagney
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
The Transformation Of A Shire: Local Negotiation In The Society For Creative Anachronism, 2011 Western Kentucky University
The Transformation Of A Shire: Local Negotiation In The Society For Creative Anachronism, Suzanne Barber
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In this thesis, I am examining how a small branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Loch an Fhraoich, whose values and identity center around camaraderie and narrative and aesthetic coherence, attempts to balance these two often contradictory principles. To better illustrate the negotiations taking place, I have used ethnographic fieldwork to focus on the areas of material culture, ethno-kinetics, persona, knowledge, and events. These areas are tightly interwoven, and almost never operate independently, but the exercise of isolating them is useful in seeing the complexities of choices that members must make to navigate the social world of the Society …
Osborne, Theresa (Fa 513), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Osborne, Theresa (Fa 513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 513. Material collected by Theresa Osborne about an event called “Country Fair Day” held at the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum, Benham, Kentucky, featuring presentations about material culture. Also includes a paper focusing on local material culture and foodways and a small collection of interviews documenting recollections of Kentucky residents. This project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Johnson, Mackenzi (Fa 514), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Johnson, Mackenzi (Fa 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 514. Collection consists of short interviews conducted by Mackenzi Johnson with Kenneth Nixon about folk customs and foodways, two of Johnson’s young cousins about children’s rhyming and clap games, an informal interview with Charita Swann, as well as discussions of Native American culture and life with Arigon Starr and Gay Wapecome. Also includes a performance by Arigon Starr at Bluebird Café in Nashville, Tennessee. This project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Hog Butchering (Fa 24), 2011 Western Kentucky University
Hog Butchering (Fa 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 24. Statements and reminiscences of Kentucky residents who participated in or conducted hog butchering in Kentucky. Information was gathered from various informants between 1963-1969. Material is arranged alphabetically by collector, consisting of specific detials about executing hogs, processing and preserving meat, and rendering lard. Includes papers by collectors and photographs. This project was completed by students at Campbellsville College under the guidance of Lynwood Montell.