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Book SynopsisPerformer-centred studies of folk artists
Trade Review[This] volume is a significant contribution to the field as well as a useful tool for teaching and research.
* Journal of American Folklore *
This book is strongly recommended to anyone interested in vernacular traditions and their re-creation in the individual imagination
* Journal of Folklore Research *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Individual and Tradition
Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla
Entering Tradition: Kim Ellington, Catawba Valley Potter
Charles G. Zug
Delight in Skill: The Stone Carvers' Art
Marjorie Hunt
The "Talking Machine Story Teller": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of Storytelling
Richard Bauman
Chief Ovia Idah: Bricoleur of Benin City and a Star for All Times
Philip M. Peek
Place Matters: A Wooden Boat Builder in the Twenty-First Century
Maggie Holtzberg
A Backdoor into Performance
Tom Mould
The Maintenance of Heritage: Kersti Jobs-Björklöf and Swedish Folk Costume
Pravina Shukla
The World of Ogre-Tile Makers: The Onihyaku Line in Hekinan, Japan
Takashi Takahara
Bringing Them Back: Wanda Aragon and the Revival of Historic Pottery Designs at Acoma
Karen M. Duffy
Artistic Courage in Small Groups: Identity, Intermediality, and Indian Country
Michael Robert Evans
Navigating the Legends of Treasure Island: Narrative, Maps, and the Material
Greg Kelley
Fluid Identities: Madame d'Aulnoy, Mother Bunch, and Fairy-Tale History
Jennifer Schacker
Counting the Stars: The Study of Creativity on a Human Scale, or How a Bunch of Cajun and German Farmers and Fabricators in Louisiana Invented a Traditional Amphibious Boat
John Laudun
On Middle-Range Structures in Heroic Epic
William Hansen
The Role of Tradition in the Individual: At Work in Donegal with Packy Jim McGrath
Ray Cashman
Customizing Myth: The Personal in the Public
John Holmes McDowell
David Drake: Potter, Poet, Rebel
John Michael Vlach
The Mother's Voice: An Analysis of the Content of Turkish Lullabies
Ilhan Başgöz
Contested Performance and Joke Aesthetics
Elliott Oring
Vernacular Interpretation in a Public Folklore Event: Listening to the Call of Florida Fiddlers, Three
Gregory Hansen
Georgia Decoy Maker Ernie Mills: A Folk Artist Defines His Work
John A. Burrison
Rapid Transportation
Lee Haring
Working Through Tradition: Rug Farming In Anatolia
George Jevremović
A Few of My Favorite Things about North Carolina Pottery
Mark Hewitt
That's Where I Came In: Henry and His Teachers
Robert Cochran
At the Black Pig's Dyke and Other Writing: Crossing Borders of Art and Tradition
Vincent Woods
A Folklorist's Work: Henry Glassie's Life in the Field
Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla
Acknowledgments
Tabula Gratulatoria
Contributors
Index
