Foreword

Foreword to special issue: The Future of American Folklore Studies

100 Years of American Folklore Studies: A Conceptual History

A Centennial Publication of the American Folklore Society published in conjunction with The 1988 Centennial Meeting Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 26-30, 1988. Production editors: David Stanley and Marta Weigle

Особливості розвитку американської та української фольклористичної теорії на початку ХХІ століття (порівняльний аспект)

Стаття є спробою з’ясування джерел та відмінностей у розумінні природи фольклору й фольклорного тексту в українській та американській фольклористиці, Завданням автора є характеристика основних тенденцій в розвитку фольклористики на сучасному етапі.Данная статья посвящена попытке разобраться в источниках и сущности в понимании природы фольклора и фольклорного текста в украинской и американской фольклористике. Задачей автора также является охарактеризовать основные тенденций в развитии фольклористики на современном этапе.The author of this article concentrates her attention on different approaches toward understanding folk texts and their performers in Ukrainian and N orth American folklore studies in the recent decades. This article is an attempt to explain what are the main differences between two folkloristics are and why did they develop during the second half of the 20th century

A Performer-Centered Study of Narration: A Review Article , Review of Linda Dégh, \u3cem\u3eNarratives in Society: A Performer-Centered Study of Narration\u3c/em\u3e

An Hungarian in America, Linda Dégh lives the ideal of a Malinowskian fieldworker. After immigrating to the United States and joining the faculty of the famous Folklore Institute at Indiana University in the 60s, she has become a participant in and an observer of American life, conducting research among native Midwesterners and Hungarian immigrants in towns like Bloomington, Evansville, Indiana, as well as the highly industrial Calumet Region, particularly in Gary, Indiana. Dégh arrived in the United States as a mature and accomplished scholar, after conducting extensive field research in her native Hungary, and winning the coveted Pitré Prize in 1963. Her books from that period are among the classics of ethnographic folklore (Dégh 1962, 1969, 1995a). In the United States she has extended her method and observed and analyzed her storytelling immigrants as they negotiate their social and narrative worlds between their old and new countries, between their rural beliefs and practices and their homes that are filled with electronic devices, telephones, and television sets. At the same time Dégh has been a major contributor to and a commentator on the changing trends in folkloristics, and in the last thirty years she has emerged as the leading Europeanist in American folklore studies

On Professional Discourse in Folklore: A Response to Oring

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Interview with Professor Simon J. Bronner

Interview with Professor Simon J. Bronner (Penn State University)