Western Folklore 1991 - Abstracts

Western Folklore 1991
TitleSubjectAuthors
A short history of Giglio's: occupational roles as play frames. (Italian-American food market in Detroit, Michigan)Regional focus/area studiesRaspa, Dick
" ... as others see us": what others think folklorists are and do. (presented at the 1990 meeting of the California Folklore Society)(Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies)Regional focus/area studiesEvanchuk, Robin
"(Don't) throw the baby out with the bath water": the Americanization of a German proverb and proverbial expression.Regional focus/area studiesMieder, Wolfgang
Earning, appropriating, concealing, and denying the identity of folklorist. (presented at the 1990 meeting of the California Folklore Society)(Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies)Regional focus/area studiesGeorges, Robert A.
Evidence for a developing variant of "La Llorona." (Hispanic folklore of child abandonment)Regional focus/area studiesWalraven, Ed
Folklore in the classroom: 19th-century roots, 20th-century perspectives. (presented at the 1990 meeting of the California Folklore Society)(Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies)Regional focus/area studiesHaut, Judith E.
Forging "The Adirondacker." (identity construction by residents of Adirondack Park, New York)Regional focus/area studiesMcMahon, Felicia Faye
Heil Hitler - God Save the King: jokes and the Norwegian Resistance 1940-1945.Regional focus/area studiesStokker, Kathleen
Homo narrans across the disciplines. (presented at the 1990 meeting of the California Folklore Society)(Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies)Regional focus/area studiesMechling, Jay
Moses Platt and the regeneration of "Barbara Allen."Regional focus/area studiesDoyle, Charles Clay, Kelley, Charles Greg
On postmodern folklore.Regional focus/area studiesWarshaver, Gerald E.
On the future of American folklore studies: a response. (presented at the 1990 meeting of the California Folklore Society)(Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies)Regional focus/area studiesOring, Elliott
On the genre morphology of legendry: belief story versus belief legend. (response to Gillian Bennett, Western Folklore, vol. 48, p. 289, 1989)Regional focus/area studiesWard, Donald
Panel discussion. (1990 meeting of the California Folklore Society)(Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies) (Panel Discussion)Regional focus/area studies 
Personal narratives: the family novel. (The 1990 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture) (William A. Wilson speech) (Transcript)Regional focus/area studies 
The apple-shot: interpreting the legend of William Tell. (The 1991 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture)Regional focus/area studiesDundes, Alan
The beehive buffet. (family stories about an heirloom)Regional focus/area studiesHatch, Anne F.
The influence of diversity on folklore studies in the decades of the 1980s and '90s. (presented at the 1990 meeting of the California Folklore Society)(Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies)Regional focus/area studiesStern, Stephen
The middle class revisited: eating and drinking in an English village.Regional focus/area studiesHunt, Geoffrey P.
The Mobile SCUD Missile Launcher and other Persian Gulf warlore: an American folk image of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.Regional focus/area studiesDundes, Alan, Pagter, Carl
"The work is afraid of its master": proverb as metaphor for a basketmaker's art.Regional focus/area studiesGates, Charlene E.
Traditional water narratives in Utah.Regional focus/area studiesToelken, Barre
Visions of ourselves: filming folklore, present and future. (presented at the 1990 meeting of the California Folklore Society)(Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies)Regional focus/area studiesSherman, Sharon R.
Why folklore and organization(s)? (presented at the 1990 meeting of the California Folklore Society)(Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies)Regional focus/area studiesJones, Michael Owen
Wit combats with ballad revenants: "Proud Lady Margaret" and "The Unquiet Grave."Regional focus/area studiesAtkinson, David
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