Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs catastrophes proliferate around us, We Are All Survivors provides a timely, intimate, and empathetic look at disasters and recovery. Written by a group of outstanding folklorists, most of whom have themselves faced the devastation of traumatic events, this volume explores the role folkloristics has played and can play in disaster stricken communities. We Are All Survivors is a book of thought, methodological skill, and heart.
-- Diane Goldstein, Professor Emeritus, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Introduction: We Are All Survivors, by Carl Lindahl
2. Into the Bullring: The Significance of "Empathy" after the Earthquake, by Yutaka Suga
3. Rebuilding and Reconnecting After Disaster: Listening to Older Adults, by Yoko Taniguchi
4. The Story of Cultural Assets and their Rescue: A First-Hand Report from Tohoku, by Kōji Katō
5. Critical Empathy: A Survivor's Study of Disaster, by Kate Parker Horigan
6. Empathy and Speaking Out, by Amy Shuman
7. The Intangible Lightness of Heritage, by Michael Dylan Foster
8. Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: Six Months After María, by Gloria M. Colom Braña
Conclusion: The COVID-19 Pandemic and "Folklife's First Responders," by Georgia Ellie Dassler and Kate Parker Horigan
