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Folklore in the United States and Canada

An Institutional History

Av Patricia Sawin, Rosemary Levy Zumwalt

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To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before. Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United States and Canada. As the first history of folklore studies since the mid-1980s, this book offers a long overdue look into the development of the earliest programs and the novel directions of more recent programs. The volume is encyclopedic in its coverage and is organized chronologically based on the approximate founding date of each program. Drawing extensively on archival sources, oral histories, and personal experience, the contributors explore the key individuals and central events in folklore programs at US and Canadian academic institutions and demonstrate how these programs have been shaped within broader cultural and historical contexts. Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential read for all folklorists and those who are studying to become folklorists.
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Patricia Sawin is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Folklore Program in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories. Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt is Vice President Emerita and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Agnes Scott College. She is author of American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent and (with Isaac Jack Lévy) Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits and Healing the Sick.

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"The field of folklore studies has for some time needed a book such as this. To be most fully productive in their careers, student and early-career folklorists need to understand the institutional history and ecology of the field as much as they do its intellectual history and ecology. It also demonstrates the critical importance of 'team playing' beyond one's own research program, and the effective practice of everyday and strategic academic politics, to the sustenance of the field and the academic programs that constitute it."—Timothy Lloyd, Former Executive Director of the American Folklore Society"This volume provides a fascinating journey through the social contexts of the development of our field in the American and Canadian academy.  A lively and timely peek into the individuals, circumstances, politics, and coincidences that shaped the academic field of folklore."—Diane Goldstein, Indiana University"A fascinating collection of essays that chronicles the many paths that folklore scholars have taken in their quest to claim an academic place for this emerging discipline. Contributors who were involved firsthand with the leading American and Canadian folklore programs provide revealing accounts of successes and setbacks, offering insight on navigating the ideal and pragmatic worlds of the academy––lessons equally important today as universities struggle with new expectations and identities."—Gerald L. Pocius, University Research Professor Emeritus, Memorial University"When the volume's intended readers pick it up, they will be certain to turn first to the program where they studied and which shaped them (which this reviewer confesses she did), but they should come away from the volume with a much better sense of their own academic legacy and of the astonishing variety of academic folklore (heritage, popular culture, etc.) programs that exist in North America today. Each has its own emphasis, theoretical profile, ethos, and mission, but together they have the power to be greater thanthe sum of their parts. The volume also reminds readers that, while folkloristics may no longer be an "emerging" discipline, the future health of the field will need constant and careful curation."—Maria Carlson, University of Kansas, Folklorica

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