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100 years of American folklore studies: a conceptual history

William M. Clements, David Stanley and Marta Weigle 1988 © American Folklore Society
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  • Frontmatter
  • Greetings from the President (page vii)
  • The Centennial Coordinating Council (page ix)
  • Centennial Publications (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • PART I: Nineteenth Century Backgrounds (page 1)
    • Pre‐Society American Folklorists (W. K. McNeil, page 2)
    • The Intellectual Climate of Nineteenth‐Century American Folklore Studies (Simon J. Bronner, page 6)
    • On the Founding of the American Folklore Society and the Journal of American Folklore (Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, page 8)
  • PART II: The Concept of "Folklore" (page 11)
    • Cultural Evolution, Survivals and Immersion: The Implications for Nineteenth‐Century Folklore Studies (Hugo A. Freund, page 12)
    • Folklore and the Verbal Text (Mac E. Barrick, page 16)
    • Folklife and the Tangible Text (John Michael Vlach, page 18)
    • Folklore as Performance and Communication (Jack Santino, page 21)
  • PART III: The Concept of "Folk" (page 25)
    • Salvaging the Folklore of "Old English" Folk (Sylvia Grider, page 26)
    • Afro‐Americans as Folk: From Savage to Civilized (William H. Wiggins, Jr., page 29)
    • Native Americans as Folk: Collecting and Compiling Indian Traditions (Keith Cunningham, page 33)
    • The Folk Abroad: American Folklorist Outside the United States (Eric L. Montenyohl, page 36)
    • The Folk as Occupational Group: From the Cow Camp to the Shop Floor (Robert McCarl, page 40)
    • Womenfolk (Susan Kalčik, page 44)
  • PART IV: The Concept of "Folklorist" (page 51)
    • The Folklorist and Literature: Child and Others (Carl Lindahl, page 52)
    • The Folklorist and Anthropology: The Boasian Influence (W. K. McNeil, page 55)
    • The Folklorist and Linguistics: From Boas to Hymes (Claire R. Farrer, page 58)
    • The Folklorist and History: Three Aproaches (Lynwood Montell and Barbara Allen, page 61)
    • The Folklorist in the Academy (Ronald L. Baker, page 65)
    • The Folklorist and the Public (Burt Feintuch, page 70)
  • Officers of the American Folklore Society (page 77)
  • Fellows of the American Folklore Society (page 78)
  • Editors of the Journal of American Folklore (page 79)
  • Publications of the American Folklore Society (page 80)
  • Annual Meetings of the American Folklore Society (page 82)
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